Our History
Highlights in our History
With roots as a vocational high school, Pontiac Academy for Excellence has evolved to the needs to its community and is now a district on one campus, offering elementary, middle and high school with caring staff and faculty who focus on the whole child, the whole family and the whole community. Let’s take a look back.
1997
New Directions Institute (NDI) (now Pontiac Academy for Excellence) was chartered by Saginaw Valley State University as a K-12 academy.
1999
The school was restructured as a K-5 academy and renamed Pontiac Academy for Excellence.
2001 - 2006
Pontiac Academy for Excellence expanded grades throughout the years to kindergarten - 12th grade. In the year 2006, Pontiac Academy had its first High School graduating class.
2010
Pontiac Academy for Excellence underwent a large technology upgrade throughout the district.