The Oak Park School District is a school district headquartered in Oak Park, Michigan in Metro Detroit.[1] The district serves most of Oak Park, portions of Southfield, and half of Royal Oak Township.[2]

In 1960 Governor of Michigan G. Mennen Williams consolidated the majority black George Washington Carver School District, along with its elementary school, into the Oak Park School District because the Carver district no longer had sufficient taxes to pay for a senior high school services, and no area school districts voluntarily took its students for high school.[3]

Schools

The former George Washington Carver Elementary School, now the Township of Royal Oak Recreation Center

Secondary schools

Elementary schools

  • Einstein
  • Key
  • Pepper

Defunct:

  • George Washington Carver Elementary School (Royal Oak Township) - Joined in 1960, closed in 1982[3]
  • Oak Park Freshman Institute

References

  1. ↑ "Contacts and Directions." Oak Park School District. Retrieved on November 1, 2012. "13900 Granzon Oak Park, MI. 48237"
  2. ↑ "SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP (2010 CENSUS): Oakland County, MI" (Archived 2016-01-13 at the Wayback Machine). U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on June 29, 2015.
  3. 1 2 State of Michigan. "Carver Elementary School" In: Ashlee, Laura Rose (editor). Traveling Through Time: A Guide to Michigan's Historical Markers. University of Michigan Press, 2005. ISBN 0472030663, 9780472030668. p. 327.


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