George Washington Carver School District was a majority-black school district in

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. It separated from the Clinton School District in 1945 as more African-Americans moved to the area. In 1960

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consolidated the Carver School District, along with its elementary school, into the Oak Park School District because the Carver district no longer had sufficient taxes to pay for a senior high school services,State of Michigan. "Carver Elementary School" In: Ashlee, Laura Rose (editor). ''Traveling Through Time: A Guide to Michigan's Historical Markers''.

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The historical marker may be viewed here and no area school districts voluntarily took its students for high school. In 1959

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(DPS) stopped accepting high school students from Carver because Carver owed DPS $125,053.67 ($ according to inflation) in tuition and because DPS's own schools became overcrowded. At the time 24 teenagers at the 9th grade level resided in the Carver district.

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