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, and West Bloomfield.. The district is free to students who live within the district, and tuition-based programs are available to students outside of the district.

History

In 1834, the first "district" school in Birmingham opened. This school was housed in John Hamilton's old log house at Hamilton Road and Old Woodward Ave. Rev. Lemuel M. Partridge served as the teacher. In 1856, the brick "Old Red Schoolhouse" was built at Maple and Southfield roads and served as a school until 1869. The Allen House, part of the Birmingham Historical Museum, now stands where the school was. A new school was built in 1869 and became the site of Birmingham's first high school. That first high school later became known as Baldwin High School, then in 1951, Birmingham High School, and in 1959,

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. The former Baldwin High School later became Birmingham's first middle school. Through the 1930s other districts had their own elementary schools and sent paid tuition students to Baldwin High School in the Birmingham district. Throughout the 1940s, other school districts in the area were encouraged by the state to join Birmingham's school district. Southfield joined in 1943, Bloomfield Village in 1946, Franklin in 1945 and Walnut Lake in 1947.

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* http://www.birmingham.k12.mi.us/ * http://www.bhamgov.org/history/museum/early_school_history.php * http://www.bhamgov.org/history/museum/birmingham_schools_the_modern_era.php * https://web.archive.org/web/20120218030520/http://beverly.birmingham.k12.mi.us/? {{coord, 42, 31, 04.4, N, 83, 14, 40.0, W, region:US-MI_type:edu_scale:25000, display=title School districts in Michigan Education in Oakland County, Michigan 1834 establishments in Michigan Territory