Metropolitan Kansas City is served by a number of separate public school districts and an array of private institutions. There are over a dozen higher education and advanced degree programs in the Kansas City area.

MISSOURI SIDE SCHOOLS

Residents living on the Missouri side of the state line are served by the Kansas City, Missouri Public School District. Other school districts serving the southern portion of metro on the Missouri side are:

Lee's Summit R7 School District

Raymore-Peculiar School District

Grandview Consolidated District 4

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Access FREE ONLINE SCHOOL REPORTS for Kansas Side, Johnson County School Districts by High School (see more below).

KANSAS SIDE SCHOOLS

Residents living on the Kansas side are served by three award-winning Johnson County, Kansas School Districts. They are the Blue Valley School District, the Shawnee Mission School District and the Olathe School District. These districts consistently achieve recognition as providing the very best of educational environments and instruction . They have been recognized for excellence by the United States Department of Education because of results on state administered testing programs and consistently rank among the best public schools systems in the country.

BLUE VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT (District site)
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and info on
individual Elementary Schools
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SHAWNEE MISSION SCHOOL DISTRICT (District site)
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OLATHE SCHOOL DISTRICT (District site)
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Outlying communities of Desoto, KS; Gardner, KS; and Edgerton, KS are served by:

Desoto Unified School District, Gardner School District and the Edgerton School Districts.

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PRIVATE SCHOOLS

Many outstanding private educational institutions are also located in the metro area.

The Barstow School -- K-12

Rockhurst High School

St. Teresa's Academy

The Kansas City Academy

Pembroke Hill School -- pre K-12

Sunset Hill School

HIGHER EDUCATION

The Kansas City area is home to numerous institutions of higher learning serving the entire metro population offering technical, associate, undergraduate and graduate degree programs. Among them are:

Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas

University of Kansas Regents Center, Overland Park, Kansas

Metropolitan Community Colleges, Kansas City, Missouri

Rockhurst College, Kansas City, Missouri

University of Health Sciences, Kansas City, Missouri
College of Orthopedic Medicine

Mid American Nazarene University

University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Missouri

University of Missouri, Kansas City (UMKC)

UMKC School of Medicine

William Jewel College, Liberty Missouri

Avila College, Kansas City, Missouri

 

Copyright 2005 Alex Weinberger