This is more than a dance. Prom in Michigan's high schools is a time for students to come together to celebrate their accomplishments and the next big thing, gradutaion. It's a time to celebrate love and loss with their families in a community that shaped them.

It's also a time to show off their best threads and the entourage that brings them.

Prom in Flint is a prideful time for the city. Friends and family gather by the hundreds to celebrate the next chapter of their young, loved one's life.

For Northwestern Preparatory High School, this is their last prom. The school will be shutting down and sending its kids to Southwestern in the coming school year. This is the third high school to close in Flint.

Other high schools pictured are Hamady, Carman-Ainsworth, Lakeville and Division.

Brontë WittpennBased in Oakland, California

Brontë Wittpenn
Based in Oakland, California