Plymouth High School

Plymouth High School is a public high school in Canton Township, Michigan, United States. Plymouth High School is located on a campus of the Plymouth-Canton Educational Park in Wayne County. History The original Plymouth High School was built in the early 20th century on the northwest corner of Main Street and Church Street, opposite from present-day City Hall in present-day downtown Plymouth, Michigan. The district deemed the facility to be outdated by the 1960s for high school use. The facility was closed after the 1969-1970 school year. While the facility was officially closed as a high school, it remained open for high school football, basketball and swimming for the 1971 school year. The new sports facilities at PCEP were completed in time for the 1972 school year. The last official high school event at the old high school was the Class of '72 homecoming football game in October 1971. It was also the last year the homecoming parade was held in downtown Plymouth. The Senior Class of 1972 insisted on continuing the old tradition of the downtown parade leading to the old high school for the final homecoming game. In addition, the Senior Class of 1972 was the last official graduating class of the original Plymouth High. The school then became Plymouth-Salem and Plymouth-Canton in 1973. The new Plymouth High at PCEP opened in 2006. When the first new high school opened in the present-day Plymouth-Canton Educational Park, the original Plymouth High School was converted into a middle school, dubbed Central Middle School (in conjunction with the more recently constructed East and West Middle Schools). Central Middle School remains a landmark in downtown and closed as a middle school after the 2014-2015 school year. When Plymouth opened it only let in Freshmen, and the next year Freshmen and Sophomores, etc. Originally planned to simply remain Plymouth High School, the school's name was changed to Plymouth-Salem High School after Canton opened. Although the school district serves much of rural Salem Township, Salem residents were not necessarily exclusive to Plymouth-Salem.