Kansas City Public Schools

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Kansas City Public Schools
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Location
2901 Troost Avenue
Kansas City, Missouri 64109
United States
Coordinates 39°05′58″N94°34′45″W / 39.09940°N 94.57912°W / 39.09940; -94.57912
District information
Type Public school district
MottoStrong Schools. Strong Communities. Successful Students.
Grades PreK - 12 [1]
Established1867
SuperintendentDr. Jennifer Collier
AccreditationRegained to Provisional August 6, 2014
Schools35 [1]
Budget$328 million
NCES District ID 2916400 [1]
Students and staff
Students15,345 (2016–17) [1]
Teachers1,087.94 (FTE, 2016–17) [1]
Staff1,174.19 (FTE non-teachers) [1]
Student–teacher ratio14.10 [1]
Other information
Website Official website

Kansas City 33 School District, [2] operating as Kansas City Public Schools or KCPS (formerly Kansas City, Missouri School District, or KCMSD), is a school district headquartered at 2901 Troost Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri, United States.

Contents

The district, which lost accreditation in 2011, regained provisional accreditation from the state in 2014. In November 2016, the district announced it had gotten a high enough score on state accountability measures for the State Board of Education to consider full accreditation. However, the state's education commissioner told KCPS she wanted to see sustained progress. The earliest the district is likely to regain full accreditation is 2018.

In 2016, the district moved from their longtime offices at 1211 McGee in Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, to a Midtown location to be closer to district families.

Boundaries

The school district serves most of the residents of Kansas City, Missouri. The school district's borders are not contiguous with the boundaries of Kansas City; notably, it does not serve any of the city north of the Missouri River. Many areas that have been annexed by Kansas City over the years are served by 11 districts based in the suburbs.

It is bordered on the west by the Kansas/Missouri border line and on the east by the Independence and Raytown school districts. It is bordered on the north by the Missouri River. It is bordered on the south by the Hickman Mills school district and, at approximately 85th Street, by the Center school district.

History

1800s

At the end of the Civil War, there were no public schools in the entire state of Missouri. Aside from a limited number of private schools and colleges, there were few educational opportunities. [3] During reconstruction, Radical Republicans advocated for strong statewide public education through several laws and the 1865 Constitution. [4] As a response, the Kansas City Public School district was organized, with the first school board meeting taking place on 1 March 1867. At the time there was 2,150 school age children in the district. [3] Funds were able to be scraped together for the formal start of the school year in October 1867. Eight rooms across the city, from church basements to abandoned dwellings, were secured. Ten teachers started the school year, which increased to 21 by the end of the first year. Bonds were issued for the first public school building, The Washington School, located on the corner of Independence Avenue and Cherry Street. By 1869, it had been enlarged to eight rooms and held seating for 500 pupils. A two room brick building named The Lincoln School, was built in 1869 on the corner of Ninth and Charlotte streets and was the first public segregated school for African American students in Kansas City.

During the Panic of 1873, school funding was stretched as teachers took 10% pay cuts. There was sharp opposition to public education particularly of high school, which was seen as "squandering the people's money." [3] When the school board attempted to construct a high school on 9th Street between Cherry and Holmes, it was criticized for its "extravagance." Instead, it opened what was to become Central High School in a four room building on Eleventh and Locust streets. Originally named Kansas City High School, the school board changed the name to Central School in an effort to outwit the opposition. [3]

By 1897, the district employed almost 500 teachers.

Annexations

Before 1900

  • April 1885: Portions of District #1 and the Oakley District.
  • April 1886: Portions of the Ashland and Westport Districts.
  • April 1887: Another portion of the Oakley District.
  • February 16, 1899: Entire Westport District.

1900 to 1950

  • April 16, 1903: Ivanhoe District.
  • September 6, 1906: A portion of the Swope District.
  • October 18, 1906; September 3, 1908; February 4, 1909; September 16, 1910: Four separate portions of the Seven Oaks District. Seven Oaks continued to exist.
  • April 4, 1910: A portion of the Mount Washington District.
  • May 18, 1910: Remaining portion of the Swope District.
  • August 28, 1911: Entire District No. 101.
  • September 7, 1911: Entire Border Star District.
  • September 21, 1911: Another portion of the Seven Oaks District.
  • November 2, 1911: Entire Briston District.
  • November 16, 1911: Entire Mount Washington District.
  • March 21, 1912: Part of the Boone District.
  • August 27, 1912: Shiloh district.
  • February 13, 1913: Remaining portion of the Seven Oaks District.
  • September 2, 1913: A portion of the Center District.
  • December 11, 1916: All of the Leeds District.
  • August 7, 1947: The Ruhl–Hartman District.

1950 to 2000

  • January 17, 1952: A portion of the Center District.
  • May 11, 1955: Sugar Creek District.
  • February 7, 1957: Rock Creek District.
  • March 27, 1958: Pitcher–Fairview District.
  • January 1, 1973: Pleasant Valley District. [5]

State accreditation

From 1985 to 1999, a United States district court judge required the state of Missouri to fund the creation of magnet schools in the KCPS in order to reverse the white flight that had afflicted the school district since the 1960s. The district's annual budget more than tripled in the process. The expenditure per pupil and the student-teacher ratio were the best of any major school district in the nation. Many high schools were given college-level facilities. Despite all the largesse, test scores in the magnet schools did not rise; the black-white gap did not diminish; and there was less, not more, integration. [6] On May 1, 2000, Kansas City Public Schools became the first district in the nation to lose accreditation. [7] Finally, on September 20, 2011, the Missouri Board of Education voted unanimously to withdraw the district's accreditation status, effective January 1, 2012. [8] In August 2014, the Board of Education granted provisional accreditation status to KCPS in recognition of the academic gains made by KCPS students. [9] In the 2014–2015 school year, KCPS has 13 schools which met the state standard for full accreditation, and another eight which met the standard for provisional accreditation. [10]

Missouri v. Jenkins

Missouri v. Jenkins is a case decided by the United States Supreme Court. On June 12, 1995, the court, in a 5–4 decision, overturned a district court ruling that required the state of Missouri to correct de facto racial inequality in schools by funding salary increases and remedial education programs.

School closings since the 1980s

In the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s KCMSD closed at least 30 buildings. Some buildings were sold, some demolished, and some abandoned. [11] In 2010 district superintendent John Covington submitted a plan calling for the closure of 29 of the district's remaining 61 schools. [12] During that year almost half of the KCMO schools closed. By that year many students, instead of attending district schools, attended charter schools, private schools, parochial schools, and schools in suburban school districts. As of 2010 the school district had less than 18,000 students, half of its enrollment in 2000 and 25% of its peak population in the 1960s. [13]

Transfer of schools to Independence in 2007-2008

In November 2007, the voters of the Independence Public School District and the Kansas City, Missouri School District voted for seven schools (one high school, one middle school, and five elementary schools) to be taken over by the Independence School District. [14] Victor Callahan, a state senator, supported the annexation and said that he hoped that KCMSD would disappear via annexations within a 10-year span. [15] The teachers' union of Kansas City opposed the move. [16] Gwendolyn Grant, the head of the Urban League of Greater Kansas City, supported the move; she said it would make the KCMSD school board more racially homogeneous and therefore reduce tensions within the school board. [17] In November 2007 84% of voting residents within Independence and 66% of voting residents within Kansas City approved the transfer. Jim Hinson, the superintendent of the Independence district, believed that the KCMO district fought the annexation because it was a "pride issue" and because the KCMO district feared that other parts of the district could secede. [18]

In April 2008 the Kansas City Missouri School District Buildings Corp. sued to receive a declaratory judgment on the value of the Independence buildings. [19] In July 2008 Missouri Commissioner of Education D. Kent King asked for KCMSD to give up the schools. [20] During that month a judge ruled that Independence had a right to control the seven transferred schools and the closed Anderson Campus. [21] In August 2008 the Independence School District wired more than $12.8 million dollars to the Kansas City, Missouri district. The building transfer was completed. [22]

School openings in 2014

In 2014, KCPS re-opened Hale Cook Elementary School at 7302 Pennsylvania Ave. in the Brookside neighborhood of Kansas City. This was in large part due to the grassroots effort by the Friends of Hale Cook community organization. [23] The school had been mothballed since 2009. Hale Cook launched the school year with 108 students in pre-K through 2nd grade and will expand one grade every year until 6th grade. [24]

The same summer, KCPS also re-opened Central Middle School at 3611 E. Linwood Boulevard and Northeast Middle School at 4904 Independence Avenue as neighborhood schools serving 7th graders. The schools will expand to include 8th graders in 2015. [25]

In addition, KCPS expanded its pre-K program by opening a second Early Learning Center, Richardson, at 3515 Park Ave. [26]

Broadcast station owner

Kansas City Public Television (KCPT) was signed on for the first time as Kansas City School District (KCSD), which owned the station until 1971. The school district put the license on the market in 1971. A group of civic leaders formed Public Television 19 and bought the license. The station relaunched in January 1972 as KCPT. That fall, it began broadcasting PBS shows in color for the first time.

Superintendent

Dr. Mark T. Bedell joined Kansas City Public Schools as Superintendent on July 1, 2016.

Interim Superintendent Allan Tunis was named to the position on June 11, 2015. He was chosen by the Board of KCPS to maintain a focus on increasing individual student achievement in every KCPS school through academic best practices, top-flight employees, sound management, effective partnerships and public engagement.

Dr. R. Stephen Green was superintendent until June 2015. He was officially named to the position on April 2, 2012, after being interim superintendent since August 2011. [27] On Wednesday, May 13, 2015, Dr. Green was announced as the sole finalist for superintendent of Dekalb County School District in Atlanta, Georgia. He will stay at the helm of the Kansas City Public Schools until 30 June 2015.

Dr. John Covington was superintendent from 2009 until his resignation in August 2011. [28]

Anthony Amato was superintendent from July 2006 to January 2008. [29]

Bernard Taylor was superintendent from at least May 2003 until 2005, when the school board declined to renew his contract. [30] [31]

Benjamin E. Demps Jr. was superintendent from August 2, 1999, until sometime before June 2003. [32]

J. B. Bradley was elected the first as first superintendent in 1867 and also acted as a teacher for upper level students. [3]

Schools

All schools are in the City of Kansas City, Missouri. [33]

High schools

Neighborhood

Special Options School

Signature

Career and technical centers

Middle schools

Elementary schools

Neighborhood

  • Banneker - 7050 Askew Avenue
  • Garcia - 1000 West 17th Street
  • Garfield - 436 Prospect Boulevard
  • Gladstone - 335 North Elmwood Avenue
  • Hartman - 8111 Oak Street
  • Hale Cook - 7302 Pennsylvania Avenue
  • James - 5810 Scarritt Avenue
  • Martin Luther King Elementary School - 4201-A Indiana Avenue
  • Melcher - 3958 Chelsea Avenue
  • Wendell Phillips K-6 - 2400 Prospect Ave.
  • Pitcher - 9915 East 38th Terrace
  • J. A. Rogers - 6400 E. 23rd Street
  • Success Academy at Knotts - 1701 Jackson Avenue
  • Trailwoods - 6201 E. 17th Street
  • Wheatley - 2415 Agnes Avenue
  • Whittier - 1012 Bales Avenue

Persons or places neighborhood elementary schools are named after

  • Banneker: Benjamin Banneker (1731–1806), free African-American surveyor and almanac author
  • Garcia: Primitivo Garcia (1943–1967), Mexican-American hero
  • Garfield: James A. Garfield, (1831–1881), 20th President of the United States
  • Gladstone: named after Gladstone Road.
  • Hartman: John T. Hartman, Presbyterian missionary
  • Hale Cook: Hale Cook (1857–?), Kansas City, Missouri, school board president
  • James: J. Crawford James (?—1933), Kansas City, Missouri, school board president
  • Martin Luther King: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968), African-American minister and civil rights leader
  • Melcher: George Melcher, Kansas City Public Schools Superintendent
  • Wendell Phillips: Wendell Phillips (1811–1884), American abolitionist
  • Pitcher: Thomas Pitcher (ca. 1806—1886), Jackson County, Missouri, landowner and sheriff
  • J.A. Rogers: Joel Augustus Rogers (1880—1966), Jamaican-American author, journalist, and historian
  • Wheatley: Phyllis Wheatley (c.1753—1784), first African-American author of a published book of poetry
  • Whittier: John Greenleaf Whittier (1807—1892), American poet and abolitionist

Signature

  • Carver Dual Language - 4600 Elmwood Avenue
  • Border Star Montessori - 6321 Wornall Road
  • Faxon Montessori - 1320 East 32nd Terrace
  • Foreign Language Academy - 3450 Warwick Boulevard
  • Holliday Montessori - 7227 Jackson Avenue

Persons signature schools are named after

Pre-schools

Former schools

Closed to K-8 transition

Closed

High schools

Elementary and middle schools

Middle schools

Primary schools

Transferred to Independence School District

Van Horn High School prior to the 2011 renovations Van-horn-hs.jpg
Van Horn High School prior to the 2011 renovations

Closed and later transferred

Primary and alternative schools

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