Farmington District #5 School Bus, ca. 1929, parked in front of the Burnett Bros. Gas Station on Grand River Avenue and Cass Street.

Coleman School, a.k.a. Stone School, located on Middlebelt Road north of 11 Mile, was destroyed during construction of the I-696 Expressway.

Dunckel Middle School on 12 Mile Road between Farmington Road and Orchard Lake Road was built in 1957

Fairview School, located mid-way between Drake and Halsted Streets on Grand River Avenue, was used into the early 1950s.

Farmington High School, referred to as the 1918 building, was located on School Street north of Grand River Avenue.

Farmington High School photographed in 1916 next to the 1888 Union School.

The main entrance of Farmington High School shows the tablet indicating 1918

Demolishment of Union School next to Farmington High School

The new Farmington High School was constructed in 1953 on Shiawassee Road.

Farmington High School on Shiawassee, ca. 1990.

Farmington High School on Shiawassee celebrated the collapse of the Berlin Wall with the construction of its version of the Brandenburg Gate in 1989.

Many of the schools in the area were organized into Fractional Districts to serve the educational needs of the children.

The German School built on Middlebelt north of 13 Mile Road is still in existence as a private school.

Hillel Day School occupies the German School building to the present year, (picture taken in 2008).

The original Nichols School, constructed before 1860, operated into the early 1940s.

Nichols School was located on the northwest corner of Farmington Road and 13 Mile Road, ca. 1917.

The original Union School was constructed about 1852. This photo was taken sometime between 1875 and 1879.

The next Union School, built in 1888, was located at School Street north of Grand River Avenue.

A close-up photo of the 1888 Union School.

Children on recess break getting a cool drink from the well at the side of the Union School.

Union School students, often rode their bicycles to school.

In 1918 a fire destroyed the Union School. Fortunately a new school building was under construction next to it.

The West Farmington School was nicknamed ?Little Normal? because so many students who attended it later became teachers.

West Farmington School was located on the southwest corner of 12 Mile and Halsted.