Warren Consolidated Schools

Warren Consolidated Schools is a public school district serving the cities of Warren, Sterling Heights and Troy, Michigan. It operates 25 schools including two specialized partial-day high schools that draw from the other schools within the district. Warren Consolidated has about 14,000 students and a student/teacher ratio of 25:1.[1]

Warren Consolidated Schools
Location
Warren, Michigan
Warren, Sterling Heights, and Troy, Michigan

United States
District information
TypePublic
GradesK–12
SuperintendentRobert D. Livernois
Students and staff
Students14,355
Teachers800
Other information
Websitewww.wcs.k12.mi.us

Wilkerson Elementary School is named after a dedicated school teacher, Irene Wilkerson. After retirement, she resided in Poplar Bluff, Missouri until her death.

History

Warren Consolidated was formed by 1941, when the North school became part of it. Also known as the Berz school, it was located on the West side of Mound just South of 15 Mile Road. That school was sold in August 1952.[2]

Special programs

Warren Consolidated alerts non-English speaking parents of disciplinary issues and emergencies using a "language line" system with interpreters.[3]

Schools

Elementary schools
  • Margaret Black Elementary School - Sterling Heights[4]
  • Irma Cromie Elementary School - Warren[4]
  • Green Acres Elementary School - Warren[4]
  • Homer Harwood Elementary School - Sterling Heights[4]
  • Sven Holden Elementary School - Sterling Heights[4]
  • Thomas Jefferson Elementary School - Sterling Heights[4]
  • Pearl O. Lean Elementary School - Warren[4]
  • Margaret Susick Elementary School - Troy[4]
  • John Siersma Elementary School - Warren[4]
  • Maurice Wilde Elementary School - Warren[4]
  • Irene Wilkerson Elementary School - Warren[4]
  • Willow Woods Elementary School - Sterling Heights[4]

Middle schools
  • Agnes E. Beer Middle School - Warren[4]
  • Virgil I. Grissom Middle School - Sterling Heights[4]
  • Lois E. Carter Middle School - Warren[4]
  • Will Carleton Middle School - Sterling Heights[4]
  • Middle School Mathematics Science Technology Center - Warren[4]
  • Middle School Visual & Performing Arts Center - Warren[4]

High schools
Warren Mott High School

Learning Centers
  • Hatherly Educational Center[4]
    • It was previously operated as Hatherly Elementary School. In 2014 the district announced that Hatherly Elementary would close, with the building becoming Hatherly Educational Center. The center received the Macomb County Head Start Program, the district Early Childhood Special Education (ECSE), the Great Start Readiness Program (GSRP) or "World of Fours", and the district's tuition-based preschool. These programs were respectively hosted at Lean Elementary School and Fillmore Year-Round Elementary School, Siersma Year-Round Elementary School, Holden Elementary School and Siersma Year-Round, and Willow Woods Elementary School, respectively.[6]
  • Annie Flynn Educational Center (Sterling Heights)
    • The center, located in proximity to Metropolitan Parkway and Ryan Road,[3] was previously operated as Annie E. Flynn Middle School. In 2014 the district announced that Flynn Middle would close, with the building becoming Flynn Educational Center. Community High School and Adult Education English as a Second Language (ESL) were to move to Flynn, with the former coming from Butcher Educational Center and the latter from Sterling Heights High.[6]
    • As of 2011, the school had 640 students. Almost 66% of the students were bilingual in English and another language, and the majority of the students were second generations in immigrant families. Former principal Charles Kluka characterized the school's environment as a salad bowl instead of a melting pot. The most common foreign languages spoken at Flynn were Albanian and Arabic. Other students were Assyrian, Bosnian, Cantonese, Filipino, Hmong, Indian, Korean, and Vietnamese, and there were 26 primary home languages among the Flynn students. The school had an English as a second language program with over 50 students, and it provided three interpreters who assist persons during special events held at night and in classrooms during school hours.[3]
  • Butcher Education Center
    • Previously operated as Thomas Butcher Junior High School until 1982, it has housed the Macomb Mathematics Science Technology Center since 1989, the Middle School Mathematics Science Technology Center since 2013, and the Middle School Visual and Performing Arts program since 2014. It also previously housed Community High School until 2014, when it was transferred to Flynn Educational Center following its opening.

Former Schools

Several schools once in the district have been closed:

  • Angus Elementary school - closed in 2019 - currently Angus Educational Center
  • Warren High School - closed in 1992 - current Warren Community Center, owned by the City of Warren
  • Oscar Hartsig Junior High School - closed in 1981 - currently a church
  • Thomas Butcher Junior High School - closed in 1982 - currently Butcher Educational Center
  • Ernest O. Melby Junior High School - closed in 1985 - currently Regina High School
  • John C. Fuhrmann Junior High School - closed in 2003 - demolished in 2012
  • Annie E. Flynn Middle School - closed in 2014 - currently Flynn Educational Center
  • Hatherly Elementary School - closed in 2014 - currently Hatherly Educational Center
  • Albert Bever Elementary School - closed in 1978 - currently WCS Administration Building
  • County Line Elementary School - closed in 1978 - currently a shopping center at the corner of 15 Mile & Dequindre
  • Helen Fillmore Elementary School - closed in 2015
  • Robert Frost Elementary School - closed in 1980 - demolished in 2006
  • John S. Haitema Elementary School - closed in 1992 - sold to MISD
  • Robert J. Hesse Elementary School - closed in 1980 - currently an area of condominiums
  • John F. Holland Elementary School - closed in 1981 - used during the summers until the mid-1980s by the City of Warren Parks & Recreation Dept. - demolished in 1993 - currently a subdivision
  • Charles J. Marshall Elementary School - closed in 1980
  • Maple Lane Elementary School - closed in 1980 - sold to MISD
  • William E. Murthum Elementary School - closed in 1978 - partially demolished in 1987, and then totally demolished in 1992
  • North Elementary School - closed in 1992 - demolished in 1993 - currently condominiums
  • William H. Pennow Elementary School - closed in 1981 - currently a business
  • William Pfromm Education Center - closed in 2010
  • Frank A. Rinke Elementary School - closed in 1981 - currently Macomb Christian School
  • Norman Rockwell Elementary School - closed in 1978? - sold to MISD - currently Norman Rockwell Junior High School
  • Alan B. Shepard Elementary School - closed in 1981 - demolished - currently a church
  • South Elementary School - closed in 1984 - demolished in 1992 - currently a subdivision
  • Jim Thorpe Elementary School - closed in 2003 - used for Sterling Heights Police Department Training - demolished in 2006
  • Gordon J. Warner Elementary School - closed in 1993 - demolished in 2012
  • Louise B. Weber Elementary School - closed in 1979 - demolished - currently a subdivision
  • Wildwood Elementary School - closed in 1978 - currently Immaculate Conception School
  • Warren East Elementary School
  • Warren West Elementary School
  • Monfort Elementary - Located on 14 Mile Rd. between Maple Lane & Red Run. (closed 1958)

References
  1. "Home Page". www.mischooldata.org. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
  2. http://macombhistory.us/Schools/schoolsWhenBuilt.html
  3. Selweski, Chad. "Albanians, Chaldeans, Arabs and Asians move to Macomb County" (Archive). The Macomb Daily. Wednesday March 23, 2011. Retrieved on July 6, 2015.
  4. Schools, Warren Consolidated. "Warren Consolidated Schools". www.wcs.k12.mi.us. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
  5. "SHHS School History". www.wcs.k12.mi.us. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
  6. DeFrank, Frank. "Warren Con closes two schools, redraws attendance boundaries" (Archive). Macomb Daily. May 29, 2014. Retrieved on December 10, 2015.
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