Established 1956 Intermediate District Genesee Number of schools 4 | Superintendent Wayne Wright Founded 1956 | |
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Website www.lakefentonschools.org | ||
Lake Fenton Community School District is a public school district in Genesee County in the U.S. state of Michigan and in the Genesee Intermediate School District. The district is a classified as a "Class C" school district consisting of 27 square miles which takes in portions of the city of Fenton, Fenton Township, parts of Grand Blanc, Linden and Mundy townships.
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Map of Lake Fenton Community Schools, MI, USA
History
The district originally began as a collection of six one-room schoolhouses that consolidated in two waves. O'Dell Schoolhouse was designated as School District No. 1 and was located at corner of Baldwin and Torrey roads in Fenton Township on land owned by Lafayette O'Dell and later donated by his descendant William O'Dell. The school was started in 1837 and was the first record school in the county. The first school house was built in 1845. At annexation, the school was the oldest district still in continuous operation.
The first wave of consolidation was in 1922 and consisted of Severance, Long Lake and Sand Bar schools joined together. In 1953-54, the school district added the O'Dell, South Mundy and Kennedy one-room schools.
Consolidation began in 1922 and, in 1956, the Lake Fenton Community School (essentially West Shore Elementary and Torrey Hill Middle School) was built to replace the one-room schools. The school itself sat on the site of one of the one-room schools, the former Long Lake School. Then, in 1959, the first Lake Fenton High School was built, being added onto the Community School. In time, West Shore and Torrey Hill moved to a new building in Lahring Road, and the high school occupied the 1956 school building. Today, Torrey Hill is an intermediate school, the original high school a middle school and a new high school has been built on Lahring Road in Fenton Township.