Traverse City Area Public Schools
| Traverse City Area Public Schools | |
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412 Webster Street, Traverse City, Michigan Grand Traverse County |
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| District information | |
| Type | Public |
| Motto | Great Community, Great Schools |
| Grades | Young 4s to 12 |
| Superintendent | Paul Soma |
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| Website | www |
Traverse City Area Public Schools (TCAPS) is a public school district based in Traverse City, Michigan, United States. This district includes 12 elementary schools, two middle schools, three high schools, one international school, and one Montessori school. The district is headquartered in the Boardman Building.
The district serves 10,000 students over an area of 285 square miles (738 km2).
In 2011, Long Lake Elementary School closed for a rebuild next door, due to the school being old.
In March 2016, TCAPS decided to close Bertha Vos International School and Interlochen Elementary. Officials almost closed Old Mission Elementary School, but an unknown donor has pledged to pay about $100,000 dollars to keep it open. In May 2016, the nearby Kingsley Area Schools decided to look into purchasing the Interlochen.
For both 2015 and 2016 the TCAPS Japanese exchange program, in which TCAPS students exchange with Japanese ones for one week, has been completely paid for by an anonymous donor.
In summer 2016, with the closing of Interlochen Elementary, over two-thirds of its students moved to Silver Lake Elementary. With this sudden influx of students and teachers, TCAPS voted to expand Silver Lake Elementary to accommodate the extra students. The project started in May 2017, and it is supposed to end by Christmas 2017. The whole project is said to cost near $2 million.
Also in May 2017, Eastern Elementary closed for a rebuild, similar to the rebuild of Long Lake Elementary six years prior. The project will last the entire 2017/18 school year, and should be ready by July 2018. The students were moved to the nearby vacant Bertha Vos, which closed the previous year. This project will cost around $10 million.
In 2017, a Traverse City food company called Tamarack bought the vacant Long Lake Elementary School building, which was used as an elementary school before 2011. The company is in the process of remodeling the school into a warehouse.
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