Birch Run Area Schools is a school district headquartered in

Birch Run, Michigan Birch Run is a village in Saginaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,553 at the 2010 census. The village is located within Birch Run Township. History Birch Run was established in 1852 as a station on the Pere Marquette ...

. It is a part of the

Saginaw Intermediate School District The Saginaw Intermediate School District (SISD) is an intermediate school district in Michigan, headquartered in Saginaw, Michigan, Saginaw. Most of Saginaw County, Michigan, Saginaw County is served by the Saginaw Intermediate School District ...

and serves the Birch Run area, including the village of Birch Run, Taymouth Township, part of Vienna Township and all but the northeastern sections of Birch Run Township.

History

The first graduating class from Birch Run High School was in 1924. In 1939, an addition to the Birch Run school, built by the

Works Progress Administration The Works Progress Administration (WPA; from 1935 to 1939, then known as the Work Projects Administration from 1939 to 1943) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to car ...

, was opened. It was not damaged when, in 1941, the original school burned down. The burned section was replaced by a one-story wing in 1943. These structures still exist on the southeast end of the high school. In 1954, voters approved the consolidation of 6 of the township's fractional school districts into the Birch Run Area Schools district, and passed a bond issue for a new addition to the high school. The addition was designed by Finnish architect Suhlo Alexander Nurmi. The district's dedicated elementary school opened in 1958. The high school was renovated and expanded in 2001.

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Birch Run Area Schools
School districts in Michigan Saginaw Intermediate School District {{Michigan-school-stub