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{{Short description|School district in Michigan, United States}}
{{for|the school district in New Jersey|Waterford Township School District}}
{{Infobox school district
| name = {{PAGENAMEBASE}}
| address = 501 North Cass Lake Road
| city = Waterford
| state = Michigan
| zipcode = 48328
| country = United States
| type = Public
| us_nces_district_id = {{NCES District ID|2635310|district_name=Waterford School District|access_date=2022-03-05}}
| grades = PreK–12<ref name="nces_dist" />
| students = 7,520<ref name="nces_dist" />
| teachers = 473.46 ([[Full-time equivalent|FTE]])<ref name="nces_dist" />
| staff = 733.1 ([[Full-time equivalent|FTE]])<ref name="nces_dist" />
| ratio = 15.88<ref name="nces_dist" />
| website = {{URL2|https://www.waterford.k12.mi.us}}
}}
'''Waterford School District''' is a school district headquartered in [[Waterford Township, Michigan|Waterford Township]], [[Michigan]].
==History==
Waterford Township lays claim to the first public school in [[Oakland County, Michigan|Oakland County]]. That school was established in 1821 on the shores of Silver Lake with seven students. That number grew to
While one-room schoolhouses were the norm during the rural 19th century, multiroom school buildings became the norm as [[Waterford Village Historic District (Waterford, Michigan)|Waterford]] transitioned into a suburban community. The first was the Waterford School, built in 1910 and expanded in 1927<ref>[http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7276/4022/1600/141260/100_0771.jpg Photo of Waterford Village Elementary]</ref> and later to be renamed Waterford Village Elementary (which was closed in 2014); [[Four Towns (Michigan)|Four Towns]] and Waterford Center moved to new and larger school buildings within the next few decades, while the new Drayton Plains School opened in 1920.<ref>[http://www.ocphs.org/drupal-6.1/node/23 Drayton Plains One Room Schoolhouse]</ref> The hope was to consolidate these schools in a single district with the possible addition of a high school—Waterford's high school students then attended either [[Clarkston High School (Michigan)|Clarkston High School]] or [[Pontiac High School (Michigan)|Pontiac High School]]—but the [[Great Depression]] and then [[World War II]] postponed consolidation until 1944,<ref
Attention was then turned to building a high school for Waterford Township, which doubled in population during the 1940s. For the first several years after Waterford Township High School was established in 1947,<ref>[http://classicschools.com/Michigan/Waterford/Waterford_Township_High_School/ Waterford Township High School at classicschools.com]</ref> kindergarten through
At its peak in the 1970s, Waterford School District contained
==Schools==
===High schools===
* [[Waterford Kettering High School]] (opened 1961)
* [[Waterford Mott High School]] (opened 1967)
* [[Waterford Durant High School]] (opened 2012 credit recovery)▼
===Middle schools===
* [[Stevens T. Mason]]<ref name="michiganhistory.leadr.msu.edu">{{Cite web|url=http://michiganhistory.leadr.msu.edu/waterford-schools-and-their-michigan-history-connection/|title=Waterford Schools and their Michigan history connection » Michigan History}}</ref> Middle School (opened 1965)
* [[John Davis Pierce|John D. Pierce]]<ref name="michiganhistory.leadr.msu.edu"/> Middle School (opened 1957)
===Elementary schools===
* [[William Beaumont]] Elementary School
* [[Thomas M. Cooley]] Elementary School
* Donelson Hills Elementary School
* [[Ray Stannard Baker|David Grayson]] Elementary
* [[Laura S. Haviland]] Elementary School
* [[Douglass Houghton]] Elementary School
*Patricia E. Knudsen Elementary School
* Riverside Elementary School
* [[Henry R. Schoolcraft]] Elementary School
===Early childhood centers===
* Stepanski Early Childhood Center
▲* [[Waterford Durant High School]]
==References==
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==External links==
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{{Waterford Township, Michigan}}
{{West Bloomfield Township, Michigan}}
[[Category:Education in Oakland County, Michigan]]
[[Category:School districts in Michigan]]
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