Britton Deerfield School District

The district was created on July 1, 2011 when the Britton-Macon Area School District merged with the Deerfield Public School district.[1]

For the 2010-11 school year, both school boards voted to adopt a "shared service" plan for their middle and high school students.[2] All high school students (grades 9-12) would attend classes in the Britton building, while all middle school students (grades 6-8) would attend classes in the Deerfield building. Both towns would continue to use their elementary schools for grades Pre-K-5).[3] The school boards would ultimately decide to merge in time for the 2011-12 school year.

The two districts had operated separately as the Britton Tories and the Deerfield Minutemen, but would occasionally combine their athletic teams in order to compete.[4] Britton and Deerfield would ultimately combine all of their sports teams beginning with the 2009-10 school year as the Britton Deerfield Patriots, which was a salute to both schools' American Revolutionary War nicknames. They compete in the Tri-County Conference and wear the colors of red, white, and blue.

Both Britton and Deerfield competed in the River Raisin Conference from 1960-1973[5] and have been in the Tri-County Conference ever since.[6]