Clio Area School District is a public school district in
Genesee County in the
U.S. state of
Michigan and in the
Genesee Intermediate School District
Genesee Intermediate School District is an Intermediate school district in Michigan serving the school districts that primarily lie within Genesee County.
Schools Direct schools
*Elmer A. Knopf Learning Center
*Genesee Career Institute
*Genesee ...
. The district includes all of the city of
Clio; the majorities of
Vienna Township, and
Thetford Township; and parts of
Mount Morris Township, and
Montrose Township, Michigan.
Clio Schools operates a four-tier configuration for district schools. Grades Kâ3 are assigned to elementary level, 4 and 5 are assigned to the Intermediate level, 6â8 are assigned to the middle school level, and 9â12 to the high school level.
Attendants of the Clio Area High School require 28.5 credits to graduate; 25.5 of the credits must be earned through Clio High School. The rest are to be earned through correspondence schools, virtual high school, and adult education courses, etc. If a student does not have at least this many credits, there are credit make-up programs available.
Athletics
Clio was a charter member of the
Genesee County B League
The Genesee County B League was a high school sport league in Genesee County Michigan
Michigan () is a U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest, upper Midwestern United States. With a population ...
, formed in 1950. In 1960, Clio, along with seven other schools from around Genesee County left the GCBL to form the Big Eight Conference. The conference would later be renamed the
Big Nine Conference
The Big Nine Conference, formerly the Big Eight Conference, was a high school sports conference in Genesee County, Michigan, that ended with four high schools in 2012.
History
Formed in 1960 as the Big Eight Conference, the conference became th ...
in 1968 after the addition of an additional member school.
Clio remained a member of the Big Nine Conference through the end of the 2004-05 school year, when the district applied for and was granted membership into the
Flint Metro League for competitive reasons. While in the Big Nine, Clio teams had great success in baseball, wrestling, girls' golf, and girls' basketball.
Though Clio has no recognized
Michigan High School Athletic Association
The Michigan High School Athletic Association (MHSAA) is a service organization for high school sports in Michigan and is headquartered in East Lansing. It is a member of the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS).
Unlike ma ...
team state championships, the school finished as state runner-up for girls' cross-country (1980), and girls' golf (2000â2006). The school has had several individual state champions in boys' wrestling and girls' cross-country.
Recently the boys' cross-country team took second place at the Michigan State Spartan Invitational (2012).
The press box located at the Clio High School's Pride Stadium was renamed in 1991 in honor of long time Clio resident and former Board of Education member Robert Sheppard. Sheppard, who was the public address announcer for the Mustangs for many years, was killed in a collision in Chesaning, MI in 1990.
References
External links
* http://www.clioschools.org
{{Genesee Intermediate School District
School districts in Michigan
Education in Genesee County, Michigan