Superintendent's Message

Enjoy this school year's first edition of Superintendent Shellenbarger's quarterly district newsletter, The District Dish, highlighting the great things happening at Clawson Public Schools!

As we all know, Clawson is a special place for so many reasons.  That is why, as I enter my 7th year as an educator at Clawson Public Schools, I am so excited - because Clawson Public Schools is a special place too!  As we begin the 2024-2025 school year, we will celebrate our 100th year as a public school district.  How exciting! 

For the past ten months, we have been fully renovating our 100-year-old middle school as it becomes our brand new elementary school.  Clawson Elementary School will house all of our TK-5th grade students.  Those students attended Kenwood and Schalm Elementaries, which we officially closed in June of this year.  We could not be more excited for this new and fresh start, offering our students and staff the best possible environment to teach and learn in, coupled with the newest and best resources to teach and learn from.  We will welcome our community into the new building this month to see for yourself what the bond dollars that our wonderful community supported (thank you!) have been used for.  

As we fully move to our Central Campus model this September, we are so very excited and fortunate to have extensive upgrades to all of our buildings, specifically in the form of safety and security.  As a result of those upgrades, our students and staff have never been safer inside our buildings and that work will continue into the final phase of our bond that will be finished in 2025.  We are so grateful for the new and improved Clawson Public Schools and what comes with that and there has never been a better time to be a part of Clawson Public Schools!  Have a fantastic 2024-2025 school year!

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