Armada Area Schools
school district in Michigan
Armada Area Schools is a public school district in Macomb County, Michigan. It serves Armada and parts of the townships of Armada, Bruce, Lenox, Ray, and Richmond. It also serves parts of Berlin and Riley townships in St. Clair County.
History
In fall 1929, a new Armada High School opened. Eighteen small, independent school districts consolidated in the 1940s to form Armada Area Schools.
A new high school opened in October 1956. Walter H. Wyeth of Port Huron was the architect.
The current Armada High School opened in fall 1976, and the former high school was renovated and became the district's middle school.
Armada Elementary, later known as Orville C. Krause Elementary, opened in fall 1999.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Armada Area Schools” is school district in Michigan. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Armada, Area and Schools, not as a finished interpretation.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4792493. Authority coordinates are 42.846, -82.882. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1929, 1956, 1976 and 1999.
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