Rochester Community Schools (Michigan)
Rochester Community Schools is a public school district in Metro Detroit in the U.S. state of Michigan, serving Rochester, most of Rochester Hills and Oakland Township, and small portions of Auburn Hills, Orion Township, Shelby Township, and Washington Township. As of the 2023–24 academic year, the district enrolled 14,980 students.
History
Prior to 1949, there were several small school districts within the current district's boundaries. Each district had a single school that did not include high school grades, whereas the school district in Rochester itself included a high school. Because of Avon Township's rising population and the need for students to be guaranteed a high school education, the small districts consolidated with the Rochester district in April 1949. The new district was called Rochester Community Schools and it consolidated the following districts: Rochester, Avon, Brewster, Hamlin, and Ross.The district population was expanding rapidly by 1952, and the district needed to plan more buildings. However, there were still eight other small school districts in the township whose consolidation would affect the district's long-range planning. Pending the agreement of the districts, the RCS school board voted on October 15, 1952 to annex the following districts: Baldwin, Stoney Creek, Brooklands, Kline, Snell, and Brush. Bigler and Mount Vernon school districts, who did not have schools of their own but sent both funds and students to Rochester Schools, were also on the list. On December 15, 1952, the districts voted to be annexed, with Kline school district the only holdout. The Kline district was ultimately annexed, and the district boundaries became roughly what they are today.