Carman-Ainsworth Community Schools
| Carman-Ainsworth Community School District | |
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| school district | |
 Location of Carman-Ainsworth Community School District within Genesee County, Michigan. |
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| Coordinates: 42°57′43″N 83°49′35″W / 42.96194°N 83.82639°WCoordinates: 42°57′43″N 83°49′35″W / 42.96194°N 83.82639°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Michigan |
| Intermediate District | Genesee |
| Government | |
| • President | Barry Saunders |
| • Vice-President | Peggy Anderson |
| • Superintendent | Steve Tunnicliff |
| • Assistant Superintendent | Russ Parks |
| Time zone | EST (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP code | 48473, 48507, 48532 |
| Website | www |
Carman-Ainsworth Community Schools is a Michigan public school district teaching kindergarten through 12th grade. The district covers parts of Flint Township, Flint (minor), Mundy Township and Burton.
School District #8 was formed in 1837. With the donation of a section of Elijah Carman's farm land, which is now the corner of Bristol and Fenton Roads, in 1847 the district was renamed as the Carman School District.
A dedication ceremony for the Robert N. Mandeville High School was held December 2, 1949 and was named after one of 16 students of the district's 1936 class who died in combat serving in the Air Force during World War II.
In 1949 the Graham School District consolidated with the Dye School District. The consolidated Dye Schools built two elementary school, Dye in 1956 and Randels in 1961.
In the 1950s, the Rankin School District was dissolved and parceled out to Carman, Lake Fenton, Grand Blanc, and Swartz Creek districts. The Hoover School District opened Lena Stalker Elementary School in 1956, while the Utley School District built Woodland Elementary School in 1957.
The district built four elementary schools in 1955: Carman Park Elementary, Fenton Lawn Elementary, Rankin Elementary and Van Slyke Elementary.
In 1961, Dye, Utley and Hoover districts merged into the Carman School District, quadrupling its student population. Mandleville building became a junior high school that year, while the Ainsworth High School was built and opened that fall, overcrowded. It was named for Donnelson and Wayne Ainsworth, a father and son who served a total of 60 years on the Carman school board.
The Gladys Hawkins Dillon Elementary School was constructed in 1962. Planning for a second high school began right away for the district's north end and in 1967 that school, Carman High School, was opened. The district peaked its enrollment in 1970 with nearly 10,000 K-12 students.
The Carman School District was renamed in 1986 to Carman-Ainsworth Community Schools to indicate the community approach and the dual K-12 zones covered by the high schools. The student population slid due to the withdrawal of the automotive industry to near 5,000 students in the mid-1980s. As a result, three middle schools were closed and sold. Ainsworth School became the middle school as Carman-Ainsworth Middle School and Carman School was renamed Carman-Ainsworth High School.
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