The Monitoring Commisssion was created in 1976 by the U.S. District Court to: (1) audit the efforts of the Detroit, Michigan public school system as it implemented a court-ordered desegregation program, (2) inform the community; and (3) advise the court. This Commission Report on the assessment process and its findings has six major sections as follows: background information, summary of the status of implementation, profiles of individual high schools, minimal assessment criteria and indicators, statistical data, and individual high school scoring matrices. Each school pofile includes individual school characteristics, criteria-based assessment indices, and teacher and counselor ratings of the school. The data provided reflects the status of Detroit's high schools in terms of eight program areas affected by the court's orders: bilingual education; counseling and career guidance; in-service training; reading and communication skills; school-community relations; student code of conduct; testing; and vocational education. This longitudinal study gives historical perspective to the progress of Detroit's high schools and illuminates systematic problems in the areas of student attrition and preparation for high school. (DWH)