Howell Public Schools
school district in Michigan, United States
Howell Public Schools is a school district in Livingston County, Michigan. It serves the city of Howell and parts of the following townships: Cohoctah, Deerfield, Genoa, Handy, Howell, Iosco, Marion, Oceola, and Putnam.
History
Michigan Avenue Middle School, built in 1921, was located at 325 S Michigan Ave (where the post office is currently). It was once known as Howell Public School and included the high school. It was demolished in 1983.
The Freshman Campus was built as Howell High School in 1965. Michigan Avenue Middle School moved into the building, at 1400 West Grand River Avenue, when the present Howell High School was built, renaming it McPherson Middle School.
The present Howell High School opened in September 1981. McPherson Middle School became the Freshman Campus with the opening of its replacement, Three Fires Middle School (now Three Fires Elementary) in 2002.
Parker Middle School had been planned as a high school, and when it opened in 2007, it housed Howell High School while that building underwent renovations.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Howell Public Schools” as school district in Michigan, United States. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as school district in Michigan, United States. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
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 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q125574051. Authority coordinates are 42.615, -83.952. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1921, 1983, 1965 and 1400.
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This entry incorporates text from “Howell Public Schools” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.