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Plymouth–Canton Community Schools

school district in Michigan

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ7205751 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Plymouth–Canton Community Schools (P-CCS) is a school district headquartered at E. J. McClendon Educational Center in Plymouth, Michigan. The district's boundary includes areas in Wayne County and Washtenaw County, including the City of Plymouth, Plymouth Township, and parts of Canton Township, Salem Township, Superior Township, and Northville Township.

Schools

Designated areas of the district are assigned to various schools. Each elementary school and middle school has an attendance zone. Students are randomly assigned to high schools, regardless of their locations within the district.

Alternative education

Starkweather Educational Center (Plymouth Township, formerly Fiegel Elementary School)

Gallimore Elementary School (Canton Twp. TAG Magnet school)

High schools

The district's high schools are located in the Plymouth-Canton Educational Park (P-CEP) in Canton Township.

Canton High School (Formerly Plymouth-Canton High School)

Plymouth High School

Salem High School (Formerly Plymouth-Salem High School)

Middle schools

Discovery Middle School (Canton Township)

East Middle School (Plymouth)

Pioneer Middle School (Plymouth Township)

West Middle School (Plymouth Township)

Liberty Middle School (Canton Township)

Elementary schools

Bentley Elementary School (Canton Township)

Bird Elementary School (Plymouth Township)

George Dodson Elementary School (Canton Township)

Eriksson Elementary School (Canton Township)

Farrand Elementary School (Plymouth Township)

Mildred Field Elementary School (Canton Township)

Hoben Elementary School (Canton Township)

Hulsing Elementary School (Canton Township)

Isbister Elementary School (Plymouth Township)

Miller Elementary School (Canton Township)

In July 1975 the school started a pilot year-round schooling program, allowing it to increase its student capacity by one third. The pilot was completed in August 1977.

Smith Elementary School (Plymouth)

Flossie B. Tonda Elementary School (Canton Township)

Workman Elementary School (Canton Township)

Defunct schools

Canton Center School (Canton Township) - Now the Canton Historical Society Museum.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Plymouth–Canton Community Schools” as school district in Michigan. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1975, 1977—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Plymouth, Canton and Community can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as school district in Michigan. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7205751. VIAF identifies the subject as 141990087. The Library of Congress control number is n87843671. Authority coordinates are 42.370, -83.472. 1 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1975 and 1977.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Plymouth–Canton Community Schools”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Plymouth–Canton Community Schools primary sources, Plymouth–Canton Community Schools archive and Plymouth research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Plymouth–Canton Community Schools”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Plymouth–Canton Community 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.