[5] The district serves 8,655 students (as of the 2023–24 school year) over an area of 283.6 square miles (735 km2).

In March 2016, TCAPS decided to close Bertha Vos International School and Interlochen Community.

Officials almost closed Old Mission Elementary School, but an unknown donor has pledged to pay about $100,000 to keep it open.

The students were moved to the nearby vacant Bertha Vos, which closed the previous year.

Blair, Silver Lake, and Westwoods Elementary schools had also been expanded in the previous years to accommodate a higher number of students.

[25][26] Later in the year, on October 20, TCAPS reported that a staff member at Traverse City Central High School had contracted COVID-19.

The next two days, a Wednesday and Thursday, would see Central students revert to online classes while the Grand Traverse County Health Department conducted contact tracing, with the following Friday seeing students return to in-school learning.

[34] An additional two weeks in April 2021 saw the middle and high schools close due to Michigan's rapid rise in COVID cases.

[35] In April 2021, TCAPS revealed that some high school students (at both Central and West) were involved in a Snapchat group called "Slave Trade", in which pictures of African American students were posted and assigned price tags.

[36] TCAPS, as well as the Grand Traverse County Sheriff's Department both conducted investigations at both high schools.

[37] The following table lists members of the current TCAPS Board of Education (as of 2023):[38] Most of the district is in Grand Traverse County.

It includes the portion of Traverse City in that county, as well as the following townships: East Bay, Garfield, Long Lake, Peninsula, and Union.

It also includes portions of Acme, Blair, Grant, Green Lake, and Whitewater townships.

Originally opened in 1853, the school is changed names and locations a multitude of times.

[48] It enrolls 1,471 students, making it the largest high school in Michigan north of Kent County.

[51] TCAPS offers alternative education at Traverse City High School.

[54] Because of it serving as a feeder to Central High School, East Middle's athletic teams are also known as the Trojans.

It is located off Three Mile Road, on the same campus as Cherry Knoll Elementary School.

The school is located off Silver Lake Road, on grounds formerly used for agriculture by the Traverse City State Hospital.

[78] Oak Park school (former Oak Park Elementary), also owned by Northwest Educational Services, is used as a special education school[79] Thirlby Field in Traverse City, which seats 9000, serves as a neutral ground between the athletic teams on Traverse City's west and east sides.

The stadium is used by both Traverse City West and Central, as well as St. Francis High School, as a home field for football, soccer, and lacrosse.