Editing Leslie, Michigan (section)

==Education==
The Leslie Public School District is a small, rural district that educates nearly 1,400 students. The new Leslie High School was built in 1996 at 4141 Hull Road, and upgraded the old high school building into the middle school. The old middle school on Woodworth street (which was once a high school) was about 100 years old, and is now abandoned. The school district's mascot is the Leslie Blackhawk and the school colors are orange and black. Leslie's one public school has an average graduating class of between 100 and 130 students.

There are currently 3 Physical schools in Leslie: Woodworth Elementary school, Leslie Middle school, and Leslie High School.

Also located in Leslie is White Pine Academy,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20230204120946/https://whitepineacademy.weebly.com/ White Pine Academy]</ref> a public school academy that is charted by Saginaw Valley State University<ref>[http://www.svsu.edu/ Saginaw Valley State University]</ref> White Pine Academy was founded in 1999 by a group of local parents looking for a back-to-basics curriculum and small class sizes. In 2005, White Pine Academy built a new facility at 510 Russell Street. As of June 30, 2023 White pine academy ceased operations, and there are no plans to reopen.<ref>{{Cite web |title=WHITE PINE ACADEMY |url=https://whitepineacademy.weebly.com/ |access-date=2025-03-09 |website=WHITE PINE ACADEMY |language=en}}</ref>

===Sports===

Varsity sports offered at Leslie include basketball, baseball, football, golf, tennis, cross country, track, soccer and wrestling for the boys and basketball, softball, cheerleading, golf, tennis, cross country, track, soccer and volleyball for the girls.

In 2008 the Leslie Blackhawks football team played for the Division VI state championship at Ford Field, but fell short to the Montague Wildcats, 41–20.

Distance running has been prominent in Leslie. An annual [[road running|road race]] is held in mid-August during the annual Blackhawk Festival at the high school. It runs through the outskirts of the city and finishes on the track. Leslie High School's men's [[cross country running]] teams have won 14 consecutive conference championships (1990–2003) and one Class C state championship (1993).

=== Robotics ===
In 2020 a High school [[Calculus]] teacher was approached by a [[FIRST Robotics Competition|FIRST robotics]] coach from another district at a [[quiz bowl]] event and offered to help start a team, that year 6 students built a 'somewhat functional robot' during  [[AP Calculus]] according to a team member at the time.

Until the 2022 school year the Robotics team operated out of a small room at [[Leslie High School]], In the summer of 2022 they cleaned out a former work a former workshop room at [[Leslie Middle School]]. When tech ed left the middle school offerings, it became a storage room for 20 years. They were able to clean it out and turn it back into a tech education space where it could be used to teach hands on skills. It is now in currently operational as the robotics room for the 8374 [[FIRST Robotics Competition|FRC]] team Bongo Bots, and the 21491 [[FIRST Tech Challenge|FTC]] team Bongo Bytes, along with several [[FIRST Lego League Explore|FLL]] and [[FIRST Lego League Challenge|FLL challenge]] teams.