Wayne-Westland Community Schools is a school district headquartered in Westland, Michigan in Metro Detroit. [1]
The district service area includes all and/or portions of Westland, Wayne, Canton, Dearborn Heights, Inkster, and Romulus. [2] As of 2012 the district had 12,600 students. [3]
During the summer of 2013, the Inkster Public Schools District was dissolved. [4] The Wayne-Westland school district absorbed a portion of the Inkster District. [5] Students north of Michigan Avenue and west of Middlebelt were rezoned to Wayne-Westland. [6] As of July 2013, there were 65 registered students, including 34 elementary students, 13 middle school students, and 18 high school students, in Inkster Public Schools who lived within that part of the former Inkster district assigned to Wayne-Westland. [7]
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