Swartz Creek Community Schools
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| Swartz Creek Community School District | |
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| Country | United States of America |
| State | Michigan |
| Intermediate District | Genesee |
| 1st Organization | 1840 |
| 3rd Organization | 1842 |
| Consolidation | 1947 |
| Government | |
| - President | John Knickerbocker |
| - Vice-President | Brian Mitchell |
| - Superintendent | Jeff Pratt |
| - Assistant Superintendents | Sharon Fouts (Instruction), James Bleau (Personnel/Business) |
| Time zone | EST (UTC-5) |
| - Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP code | 48433, 48436, 48449, 48473, 48507, 48532, 48544 |
| Website: http://www.swartzcreek.org/ | |
Swartz Creek Community School District is a public school district in Genesee County in the U.S. state of Michigan and in the Genesee Intermediate School District. The School District serves the City of Swartz Creek, parts of Flint Charter Township, Gaines Township, Clayton Township, Argentine Township and Village of Lennon even over into Shiawassee County.
| Building | Type | Built | Location |
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| Mary Crapo School | Alternative High & pre-school | 1929 | Swartz Creek |
| Swartz Creek High | secondary | 1958 | Swartz Creek |
| Swartz Creek Middle | secondary | 1967 | Swartz Creek |
| Gaines | elementary | 1880 | Village of Gaines |
| Syring | elementary | 1959 | Swartz Creek |
| Morrish | elementary | 1964 | Mundy Township |
| Elms Road | elementary | 1966 | Swartz Creek |
| Dieck (Van Vleet Road) | elementary | 1969 | Clayton Township |
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| Swartz Creek Community School | ||
| School(s) | Swartz Creek High | |
| Association | MHSAA | |
| Conference | Flint Metro | |
| Athletics director | Sue Calvo | |
| Location | Swartz Creek | |
| Varsity teams | football, cross country, basketball, Baseball, Volleyball, Soccer, Tennis, Swimming, Lacrosse, Track, Golf, and of course, Ice Hockey | |
| Nickname | Dragons | |
| Colors | Red and White
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| Homepage | Swartz Creek Athletics | |
| Class | A |
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| Year Joined/Rejoined | 1968/2006 |
At the Little Red School House No.2 back in the late 1800s, Swartz Creek Schools started its sports tradition starting with a championship girls baseball team followed by a winning boys baseball team. In the 1940s, the football team earned the county championship trophy awarded by the Flint Journal, which nicknamed the Swartz Creek Teams as the "Dragons", after which the yearbook was called the dragon. Swartz Creek belong to the Flint Metro League from its founding in 1968 from the County B League[1] until the 1976 when they joined the Big Nine Conference. The Cross Country squad had extraordinary success racking 15 Big Nine league championships, many Greater Flint Area Champions, Regional Champions, multiple state meet appearances with runners up in 1982 and State Championship in 1986. Given the even large schools in the Big 9 that were some times classified as AA making teams uncompetive in league play, Swartz Creek returned to the Flint Metro League in 2006.[1]
[edit] History
In 1840, notice were posted to organize a school district in Miller's Settlement and included parts of Flushing and Mundy Townships extending a half mile South of the current City of Swartz Creek limits. For the initial two years, no taxes were levied and tution was charged to the parents of the students with classes held in a log schoolhouse with the first teacher, Jane Watlkins of Grand Blanc, taught for three months. With the third year and a third district organization, taxes were levied to build a new schoolhouse to replace the burnt down previous schoolhouse. Those settled west of Miller's Settlement, Ryno Settlement, were not content with the control of the district laying with those from Miller's Settlement. With the creation of the Begole School district on Bristol in then Flint Township, Ryno Settlement members claimed that current board members were in Begole and therefor illegally a member of the district board and elected Ryno Settlement residents and allies as replacements: Aaron B. Ryno, director, Philander McLain, treasurer and John M. Nash, moderator. They then changed the district's boundaries to exclude the "removed" board members. County school inspectors overruled the Ryno board's changes. Ryno versus Miller's residents continued on into 1846 when six special meetings where held in which 4 times a school was vote on to be build in Ryno and rescinded an equal amount of times. Nonetheless a new building was final build in 1853 at Miller and Morrish Roads (now Holland Drive) referred to as the "Little Red School House". Some time in the future the Ryno Settlement was separated into its own School District as it will later merge with other districts. An addition was build on a few years later and while waiting for that addition other space was rented.
In 1891, the original Little Red School House was replace with a new Little Red School House on Morrish Road South of the railroad station. Two years of high school was added with an additional space in 1903. Swartz Creek was only a one of a few schools that offered any High School grades, so many students from neighboring school attend for high school. Flint and Durand offered all four year of high school and was were most went after Swartz Creek to finish high school. In 1910, a kindergarten program was started by renting space in the Odd Fellow Hall on the Corner of Miller and Morrish Roads with Agnes Richardson as the first kindergarten teacher.
To meet the need of the community for the students to finish high school in the District, Stanford Tappan Crapo donated in 1928 land (five acres) on Miller Road and $40,000 for the purpose of building a gym and auditorium at a school there. A school with 10 classrooms and the gym/auditorium was design and built by 1929 and was name Mary Crapo School in honor of Mary Ann Slocum Crapo. The system purchased a bus fleet at the end of 1945 to bring in high school students from seven neighboring districts. In that same year, a hot lunch program was started.
In 1947, Swartz Creek, Crocker, Hill, Kline, Fletcher, Grove, Irish, and Ryno School districts voted to consolidate into the Swartz Creek Rural Agricultural Community School District. Schools in those districts included Calkins at Morrish & Corunna Roads, Crocker at Linden and Bristol Roads, Fletcher at Seymour and Grand Blanc Roads, Green at Seymour and Corunna Roads, Grove at Seymour & Grand Blanc Roads, Hill at Hill and Jennings Roads, Kline at Sharp and Reid Roads, and Ryno at Van Vleet and Miller Road. Begole School at Bristol and Elms Roads was joined to the district in 1948. At this time, students were being sent through out the district with some kindergarten at the new Odd Fellows Hall, Begole and Fletcher as elementary with 1st through 4th grades, K-8 at Crocker and Grove as a middle school (fifth and sixth grades). It also saw expansion in programs with a school band begun and driver's education course first being taught.
Annexation of the Gaines School was completed in 1962 and its school was converted into an elementary school.[2]
| Years | Director | Treasurer | Moderator | ||||
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| 6-10/1840 | Peter Miller | David Miller | Philander McLain | ||||
| 1941 | Emir Woodin | Daniel Miller | Elisha Martin | ||||
| Spring 1942 | Joseph Goodrich | A. L. Elsswork | Jacob Rall | ||||
| 10/1842 | Joseph Goodrich | David Miller (1) | Peter Miller (1) | ||||
| 10/1842 Ryno faction | Aaron B. Ryno | Philander McLain | John Nash | ||||
| 1853 | Caleb H. Howes (1) | Enos Miller (1) | A.C. Brewer (1) | ||||
| 1868-1869 | Charles McLain | Ira Gilbert | Kellicut | ||||
| Years | President | Vice-President | Treasurer | Secretary | Trustees | ||
| 1928 | E.G.Smith | none | Fred Holland | Frank Kennedy | Fred Smalley | Floyd Larobardiere | |
| 1949 | Frederick Dieck (1) | Raymond Syring (1) | Ernest Boardman (1) | John Pajtas (1) | Raymond Syring (1) | ||
| 1958 | John Fick (1) | Lyle Laroardiere (1) | Austin Van Norwick (1) | Leonard Morrish (1) | Raymond Sy (1) | ||
| 1976 | Roger Verrell | F.D. Bloss (1) | Richard Sovis (1) | Erma Courter | Herbert Ratliff | Patricia Schoenfield | |
| 2006-2007 | John Knickerbocker | Brian Mitchell | Chuck Shults | Michael Bean | Nick Chiros | Dallas Gatlin | Brian Sepanak |
1) Exact board position unknown
| Years | Superintendent | (High School) Principal |
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| 1929 | Merton S. Vincent | none |
| 1945-1949 | Edmund Bremer | Orel Champney (1948) |
| 1949-1960 | Orel Champney | Elden Buell |
| 1960-1971 | Elden Buell | |
| 1971-1975 | John Dickey (1) | |
| 1976-? | Richard Fitzgerald | |
| ?-2001 | Charles Townsend | Sheldon Safer, Michael Dodge |
| 2001-2005 | Roy Pearson | Michael Dodge, Michael Vanderlip |
| 2005-Present | Jeff Pratt | Michael Vanderlip |
1) Interim Superintendent after John Dickey was Robert H. Brown, Assistant Superintendent of schools in charge of finance.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Tunnicliff, Greg. "Balance, competitiveness, friendships keep league rolling" (html), Flint Journal, Advance Newspapers, pp. 2. Retrieved on 2007-09-17. (English)
- ^ a b Hayes, Yutha (1976). Going up the Swartz. Swartz Creek: Bicentennial Commission of Swartz Creek, 108-124.
