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Fort Osage High School is a high school located at 2101 N. Twyman Rd. in unincorporated Jackson County, Missouri, in the Kansas City metropolitan area, adjacent to Independence. It belongs to the Fort Osage R-1 School District and serves a section of northern Independence.
Fort Osage Township is an inactive township in Jackson County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.
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- 1 2 3 "Fort Osage R-I". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved 2011-03-23. "Total Students: 4,880 (2008-2009)"
- ↑ Home. Fort Osage School District. Retrieved on January 5, 2017. "2101 N. Twyman Road, Independence, MO 64058"
- ↑ "General Street Map." City of Independence. May 2013. Retrieved on January 5, 2017. The school district headquarters are northeast of the intersection of U.S. Highway 24 and Missouri State Route 7
- ↑ "School Districts." City of Independence. Retrieved on January 5, 2017.
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