In 1937 the Michigan State Board of Education assumed responsibility for the school.
[1] In 1994 the School for the Blind moved back to Flint with MSD when the Lansing campus closed.
[2] Michigan School for the Deaf Superintendent's Cottage is a historic site.
The high school American football team stopped practicing after 1985.
[5] Nikki Coleman, the athletic director, stated that the percentage of high school students interested in American football was 95%.