A study by the Seattle schools found that about half the Samoan students here come from single-parent homes.
Cleveland's school day will be half an hour longer than in other Seattle high schools.
He said many studies of Seattle schools have shown black students lagging.
The plan clusters Seattle schools into eight racially balanced areas of 6 to 10 schools each.
From 1947 until her retirement in 1973, Dewitty taught at a number of Seattle schools.
Preferring education, in 1890 he became the principal of the Seattle high school.
A federal appeals court ruled that it was illegal to use race to determine who would be admitted to oversubscribed Seattle high schools.
They have two teenage sons who graduated from Seattle public schools.
They had two daughters, both of whom attended Seattle public schools.
Though corporate and private support for Seattle schools has increased, with dwindling state funds the district faces a projected $16 million shortfall next year.