Swartz Creek Community Schools were first organized on June 2, 1840. A crude log schoolhouse was constructed as the first school building. In the spring of 1842, the first tax levy of $100 was voted to build a new schoolhouse, as the old one had burned down earlier that year. This new schoolhouse also doubled as a church, It was later destroyed by fire in 1859. In 1851, Swartz Creek Schools consisted of two buildings, the old schoolhouse, and the new "first" little red schoolhouse (completed in 1853). In 1887, the old red schoolhouse was becoming too small for the community. A second school was constructed of red brick in 1891 on Morrish Road south of the railroad tracks. Swartz Creek Schools now had three buildings. The school district, now Including grades one through ten, was growing. In 1903, the red schoolhouse was given a new addition to accommodate high school students. In 1910, the first kindergarten class was formed. As Swartz Creek grew, there was need for additional space. In 1928, Stanford T. Crapo donated five acres and $40,000 for a new school building. The school district matched Stanford's $40,000 donation with a bond to build the Mary Crapo School, with construction begin in 1928 and opened in 1929. The new school was formally named the Mary Crapo School after Crapo's grandmother, and former Michigan Governor
Henry H. Crapo's wife. S.T. Crapo's five acres donation was part of the
Crapo Farm land The building original held all grades including kindergarten. The first graduating class of 1930 had four students. With consolidation of a number of one room schoolhouse districts, Mary Crapo had a western wing added. The current high school was built in 1958 followed by the middle school and most of the current elementary schools. In 1983, Center Stage community theater group made Mary Crapo its performance home. The Building and Site Fund levy was renewed at a 1.8 mills in May 2011. The school board agreed on June 9, 2011, to purchase the Cage Fieldhouse from Cage Management Group for additional sports practice space with the Cage Group to manage the facility. On June 23, 2011, the school board approved the design of the performing arts center. The center was funded via a qualified school construction bond, a part of the federal stimulus package, to be paid back via the existing Building and Site Fund millage. The center was official opened on September 5, 2013. The center was official opened on September 5, 2013. Center Stage held 100 plays at Mary Crapo by the time they left the school in 2013. In early 2018, the school board voted to close Mary Crapo building at the end of the school year and move the Child Development Center and Swartz Creek Academy (alternative education) to a former doctor's office on Morrish Road and to the middle school, respectively. The move would cost less than the $625,000 needed to fix and upgrade Crapo. In 2019 the high school upgraded, modernized, and expanded its athletic field complex. In 2021 Multiple additions would be added to the community schools, middle school, and high school. ==Buildings==