Utica Community Schools (UCS) is a public school district located in
Macomb County, Michigan
Macomb County ( ) is a county on the eastern shore of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is part of the Detroit metropolitan area, bordering Detroit to the north and containing many of its northern suburbs. Its seat of government is Mt. Clemens, ...
in the
Metropolitan Detroit area. UCS serves the city of
Utica, the majority of
Shelby Township, the northern portion of
Sterling Heights
Sterling Heights is a city in Macomb County, Michigan, Macomb County in the U.S. state of Michigan. A northern Metro Detroit, suburb of Detroit, Sterling Heights is located roughly north of downtown Detroit. As of the 2020 census, the city had ...
, and parts of
Ray,
Washington
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* Washington (state), a state in the Pacific Northwest of the United States
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, and
Macomb townships. UCS is the second-largest school district in the state of Michigan.
Schools
Transportation
Utica Community Schools employs 250 transportation personnel, and 12 district mechanics to service the school district's fleet of 250 district-owned school buses, as well as 75 other district-owned vehicles. The UCS Transportation Department is responsible for transporting students to and from school, as well as providing transportation for over 3,000 annual off-site learning experiences. Each day throughout the school year, some 21,000 students will ride on a Utica Community School's school bus. Like many other school districts in
Metro Detroit
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, Utica Community Schools follows a ''dash'' numbering scheme on their school buses, which declares the year that the bus manufactured in. (For example, bus 481-02 was manufactured in 2002.)
See also
* ''
Dean v. Utica''
References
External links
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{{Sterling Heights, Michigan
School districts in Michigan
Education in Macomb County, Michigan