[1] In 2012, Jeff Siedel of the Detroit Free Press said "The neighborhood surrounding Osborn High School looks like a cracked, empty shell.
Everywhere you look, there are broken windows, overgrown weeds, barbed wire fences and abandoned homes.
"[2] An April 2011 report from the office of Mayor of Detroit Dave Bing said that gangs, "especially transient gangs that are less organized — and often, randomly violent — terrorize some of our neighborhoods including … Osborn,"[3] In 2012, as part of the 100 Houses project, volunteers boarded up various vacant houses in Osborn.
[5] The community was 91.3% black, 4.3% white, 2.1% Asian (mostly Hmong people), 1.4% reporting more than one race, and .7% Hispanic and Latino.
The Asian population declined by 66%, with most moving from Osborn settled in Macomb County.
The Early Childhood / Pre-Kindergarten Office is based out of the Fleming Administration Building.
The roof is a garden of edible perennial plants such as sage, thyme, lavender and oregano.