Every Michigan school, at an address of its own -- Lansing to the last district on the map.

A rename does not move it

If a Michigan school is renamed the following year, its address is unchanged. The name it was issued under is not the thing the address is computed from once it exists, so the old links keep working and nothing has to be re-sent to families.

A late name collision does not move it either

Two Michigan schools can genuinely carry the same name, and the second one can appear years after the first. The school that was already addressed keeps what it has; the newcomer gets a distinct label of its own. Whoever was published first is never displaced.

One state, one root

An address under this root is composed from the school’s own state, so a Michigan school can only ever be addressed at michiganschool.network. A school in another state gets that state’s root instead — there is no fallback root and no guessed one.

Local districts plus a layer of Intermediate School Districts on top

Michigan runs local public schooling through traditional K-12 school districts -- most carrying a place name and calling themselves "Public Schools," a "School District" or "Community Schools" -- and groups those local districts, for shared and specialized services, into regional Intermediate School Districts (ISDs). An ISD provides special education, career and technical education and other shared services to the local districts inside its territory; some brand themselves as a Regional Educational Service Agency instead, but the function is the same.

The Michigan Department of Education oversees that whole structure, from Lansing out to the last local district on the map. This root covers the same span: a school inside any Michigan local district is addressed under one rule, whether that district sits inside a large ISD near Detroit or a small one further north.

An ISD supports its districts; it is not itself the school's address

An Intermediate School District helps the local districts inside it -- shared services, special education, training -- but it does not govern them, and a Michigan school belongs to its local district, not to the ISD layered above it.

An address here reflects that. It names the school itself. It does not encode an ISD, it does not stand in for the Michigan Department of Education, and it does not imply either one has endorsed or has any hand in the address.

Large districts, and school names that repeat across them

Detroit Public Schools Community District is the largest school district in Michigan, alongside other large, real Michigan districts such as Utica Community Schools, Ann Arbor Public Schools, Grand Rapids Public Schools and Dearborn Public Schools. Across hundreds of local Michigan districts, the same school names -- the same honored names, the same neighborhood and township names -- turn up again and again.

That is exactly the collision the "issued once" rule on this page is built for. When a second Michigan school turns up years later carrying a name a first school already uses, the school that was addressed first keeps its address unchanged, and the newcomer is given a distinct label of its own. Neither is asked to move.

A Michigan charter can be authorized by a university, not just a district

Michigan is unusual in how many of its public charter schools -- "public school academies" -- are chartered not by a local school district board but by a Michigan public university or community college acting as the authorizer. A charter authorized that way is its own local education agency, not a campus folded into the district it happens to sit next to.

So a Michigan charter school is addressed under this root in its own right, distinct from any neighboring local district, rather than assumed to belong to whichever district is geographically closest. The address names the school as the state actually organizes it, not as a map might guess it.

"We already own a domain and the state already assigns us a code"

Every Michigan district already runs its own domain, and the Michigan Department of Education already assigns every public school building a state building code and every district and ISD a district code inside the state's CEPI data system. A district technology director is right to ask what a third label adds.

It is not a replacement for either one. Your own domain stays yours to run; your state code stays the official record. This is a permanent public NAMING host under the Michigan state root -- a stable address that does not change when a school is renamed and does not collide when another Michigan district or charter authorizer turns out to run a school sharing your name. It grants no access, claims no official standing, and sits alongside your domain and your state code rather than standing in for them.