Montague Area Public Schools
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| Montague Area Public Schools | |
|---|---|
| Address | |
4882 Stanton Boulevard[1]
, Muskegon County, Michigan, 49437United States | |
| District information | |
| Motto | Education in the right direction.[1] |
| Grades | Pre-Kindergarten-12 |
| Superintendent | Jeffrey W. Johnson[2] |
| Schools | 4[3] |
| Budget | $21,512,000 2021-2022 expenditures[3] |
| NCES District ID | 2624180[3] |
| Students and staff | |
| Students | 1,371 (2023-2024)[3] |
| Teachers | 76.3 (on an FTE basis) (2023-2024)[3] |
| Staff | 170.11 FTE (2023-2024)[3] |
| Student–teacher ratio | 17.97 (2023-2024)[3] |
| Other information | |
| Website | www |
Montague Area Public Schools is a public school district in West Michigan. In Muskegon County, it serves Montague, Montague Township, and White River Township.[4] In Oceana County, it serves part of Rothbury and parts of the townships of Claybanks, Grant, and Otto.[5]
The first school within the district's boundaries was the Mouth School, established in 1849 close to the shore of Lake Michigan near the mouth of White Lake. A succession of wooden buildings were constructed (many of them burned) until a modern brick school was built in 1957. It housed all grades up to eight until 1967, when the Mouth school district consolidated with Montague's school district.[6] It then became an elementary school. In 1981, the district voted to close the school[7] and it was sold in 1988.[8]
Oehrli Elementary was built in 1921[9] as the Montague district's only school. It replaced an older central school, built in 1875 on the same site,[10] which burned on November 12, 1919. It was named after Raymond Robert “Jack” Oehrli, a long-serving district superintendent, in 1985.[11]
The current high school opened in fall 1956.[12]
Besides the Mouth school district consolidation, the district also consolidated with the Rothbury district around the same time.[7] In fall 1968, the district was reported to have 1,950 students across five buildings: the high school, middle school, and Oehrli Elementary, Mouth Elementary, and Rothbury Elementary.[13] In 1981, a time of financial hardship for the district, the school board voted to close Mouth and Rothbury Elementaries.[7]
Montague Area Early Childhood Center opened in fall 2011.[14][15] Voters approved a $12.73 million bond issue for additions and improvements to facilities in 2022.[16]