where did mitt romney go to elementary school?
Cranbrook Schools
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 Romney has three elder siblings ; Margo , Jane , and Scott ( Mitt followed them after a gap of nearly six years ) . His parents named him after a family friend , businessman J. Willard Marriott , and his father 's cousin , Milton " Mitt " Romney , a former quarterback for the Chicago Bears . Romney was referred to as " Billy " until kindergarten , when he indicated a preference for " Mitt " . In 1953 , the family moved from Detroit to the affluent suburb of Bloomfield Hills . His father became the chairman and CEO of American Motors the following year , soon helping the company avoid bankruptcy and return to profitability . By 1959 , his father had become a nationally known figure in print and on television , and the youngster idolized him . 

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 Mitt Romney wanted to pursue a business career , but his father advised him that a law degree would be valuable to his career even if he did not become a lawyer . Thus , he enrolled in the recently created joint Juris Doctor / Master of Business Administration four @-@ year program coordinated between Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School . He readily adapted to the business school 's pragmatic , data @-@ driven case study method of teaching . Living in a Belmont , Massachusetts house with Ann and their two children , his social experience differed from most of his classmates ' . He was nonideological and did not involve himself in the political issues of the day . He graduated in 1975 cum laude from the law school , in the top third of that class , and was named a Baker Scholar for graduating in the top five percent of his business school class . 

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 Romney attended public elementary schools until the seventh grade , when he enrolled as one of only a few Mormon students at Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills , Michigan , a traditional private boys ' preparatory school . Many students there came from backgrounds even more privileged than his . Not particularly athletic , he also did not distinguish himself academically . He participated in his father 's successful 1962 Michigan gubernatorial campaign , and later worked for him as an intern in the Governor 's office . Romney took up residence at Cranbrook when his newly elected father began spending most of his time at the state capitol . 

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 After the separation , Hawke was then raised by his mother . The two relocated several times , before settling in New York City , where Hawke attended the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn Heights . Hawke 's mother remarried when he was 10 and the family moved to West Windsor Township , New Jersey , where Hawke attended West Windsor Plainsboro High School ( renamed to West Windsor @-@ Plainsboro High School South in 1997 ) . He later transferred to the Hun School of Princeton , a secondary boarding school , from which he graduated in 1988 . 

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 Frequently uprooted as a child as his family moved among Bronxville , New York , Hyannis Port , Massachusetts , Palm Beach , Florida , and the Court of St. James 's in London , England , Ted attended ten different schools by the age of eleven , with his education suffering as a result . At age seven , he received his First Communion from Pope Pius XII in the Vatican . He spent sixth and seventh grades in the Fessenden School , where he was a mediocre student , and eighth grade at Cranwell Preparatory School , both in Massachusetts . His parents were affectionate toward him as the youngest child , but also compared him unfavorably with his older brothers . Between the ages of eight and sixteen , Ted suffered the traumas of Rosemary 's failed lobotomy and the deaths of Joseph Jr. and Kathleen in airplane crashes . An early political and personal influence was Ted 's affable maternal grandfather , John F. " Honey Fitz " Fitzgerald , a former mayor of Boston and congressman . Ted spent his four high school years at Milton Academy prep school in Massachusetts , where his grades were B 's and C 's and he finished 36th in a class of 56 when he graduated in 1950 . Ted did well at high school football there , playing on the varsity his last two years ; the school 's headmaster later described his play as : " absolutely fearless ... he would have tackled an express train to New York if you asked ... he loved contact sports " . He also played on the tennis team and was in the drama , debate , and glee clubs . 
