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Wyandotte Public Schools

Wyandotte Public Schools is a public school district in the Downriver region of Metro Detroit. It serves Wyandotte, Michigan.

History

The first school in Wyandotte was built in 1837. The "Old Brown School," which was built in 1856 on Chestnut Street, could hold over one hundred students and also served as a meeting place for the city council and church congregations. Wyandotte's high school was established in a new building in 1869. A school called Garfield Elementary was built in 1886, replacing the "Old Brown School," which was sold the next year.

The second building to house the high school opened in 1905, and the third and present high school was built in 1922. In the 1920s, the district adopted a policy of neighborhood schools so that no student would be more than a half mile from their school. Schools built during this period included Washington Elementary in 1930 and Garfield School in 1933, both designed by architect B. C. Wetzel. Carl R. Jensen designed McKinley Elementary, built in 1939, which closed in 2009.

Wyandotte's high school is called Roosevelt High School, carrying on a district tradition established in 1901 of naming schools after United States Presidents. It opened in February, 1923. The school was expanded in 1957, 1962, and renovated and further expanded in the 1970s, with the expansions shown completed in the 1976 yearbook.

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