Novi Community School District (NCSD) is a school district

School district

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 with its headquarters located in Novi, Michigan

Novi, Michigan

Novi is a city in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the population was 55,224, an increase over the 2000 census count of 47,386. The city is located approximately northwest of the center of Detroit, and northeast of the center of Ann Arbor. The city is located...

, USA

United States

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. It operates eight school

School

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s.

The board of education includes a president, a vice president, a secretary, a treasurer, and four members. As of 2011 Dr. Steve Matthews is the district superintendent.

History

In 1990 the district began offering the "Here Comes the Bus System," an invention which alerts parents that the school bus is within 2 miles (3.2 km) of the bus stop so that students do not have to wait for long periods of time at bus stops. Parents could pay $25 per year and a deposit in order to use the service. In the decade leading up to 2005, the school district's enrollment increased from 3,790 to 6,150 and the budget increased from $29 million to $60 million. Around 2005 district administrators anticipated that newly-established housing developments in northern and western Novi would add 1,600 houses to the district. In 2005 the school district proposed giving random drug test

Drug test

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s to students involved in all extracurricular activities.

In 2010, the Japanese School of Detroit (JSD), an educational institution that offers Japanese classes on Sundays, announced that it was relocating to Novi. It entered into a 10 year agreement with the school district and began to use Novi Meadows Elementary School to conduct classes. After the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami

2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami

The 2011 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tohoku, also known as the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, or the Great East Japan Earthquake, was a magnitude 9.0 undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST on Friday, 11 March 2011, with the epicenter approximately east...

 occurred, the school district advised school staff to be sensitive to students who may have been affected by the disaster, as many of the district's students were Japanese or of Japanese descent.

Demographics

As of December 2010, the district has about 6,300 students. As of March 2011, of the student body, over 1,700 are Japanese American

Japanese American

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 and Japanese national students. Peter Dion, the superintendent, said that many of the Japanese students come to the Novi School District, attend the district for several years, and then move back to Japan. There are no full-time Japanese schools in Metro Detroit

Metro Detroit

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, so Japanese national students attend American schools.

High school

• Novi High School
  Novi High School
  Novi High School is a public secondary school in Novi, Michigan, United States, serving students in grades 9–12. It is operated by Novi Community School District and was awarded Blue Ribbon School status in 1986-87 and 1999-00...
  
  serves students in grades 9
  Ninth grade
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  –12
  Twelfth grade
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  . The building was built in 1977 and has been expanded several times since then. It was awarded Blue Ribbon School
  Blue Ribbon Schools Program
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  status in 1986-87 and 1999-00. As of 2011 Novi High enrolls 2,020 students and has a faculty of over 150 employees.

Middle schools

• Novi Meadows School serves grades 5 and 6. The northern half of the school was built in 1968 and served as Novi High School from 1968-1977. Starting in the 1978-1979 school year it became Novi Middle School North. The southern part of the building was built in 1971 and initially housed grades 6-8 and served as Novi Middle school until 1978 when the 6th grade was moved over to Novi Middle School North. In 1978, Novi Middle School became known as Novi Middle School South. In the early 1990s, a tunnel was constructed linking the two buildings.
• Novi Middle School serves grades 7 and 8. It serves 990 students as of 2011. This school was built on an old horse farm at the intersection of Wixom and 11 Mile roads in the late 1990s. Prior to that time, Novi Middle School was located in what is now the southern portion of the current Novi Meadows School. Milan Obrenovich, the current principal, has served the Novi School District in an administrative capacity (principal, assistant principal) in the Novi Community School District since 1966.

Elementary schools

• Deerfield Elementary School is located on Wixom Road on an old horse farm adjacent to Novi Middle School. The school opened its doors in the late 1990s.
• Novi Woods Elementary School was built in 1976 to replace the old Novi Elementary School on Novi Road where the Novi Town Center Shopping area is today. This school is an open classroom type and was the first of its kind in the State of Michigan. Pamela G. Quitiquit is the current principle of the school. The school currently has about 500 students attending.
• Orchard Hills Elementary School was built in 1958 and is currently the oldest school in the district. The school is located on Quince Drive in the Orchard Hills subdivision.
• Parkview Elementary School was built and opened in 1989 and served grades K-4.
• Village Oaks School serves grades K-4. The school was built in 1971 and is located on Willowbrook Drive in the Village Oaks subdivision.

External links

• Official site