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Title: KC District Loses Its Bid for State Accreditation
Description: Kansas City Public Schools will remain unaccredited for at least another year as the Missouri Board of Education opted not to take action on a request for provisional accreditation. Although progress toward accreditation was acknowledged, a reported 7 out of every 10 students in the Kansas City School district did not score proficient in reading and math. Officials in nearby school district now worry that those Kansas City students will transfer to accredited schools, as allowed by a 1993 law.
Date: 2013-10-23
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Officials Certify Schools Petition
Description: The Jackson County Board of Election Commissioners certified petitions to transfer seven Kansas City School District schools into the Independence district. Activists are trying to move the the schools in western Independence and Sugar Creek to the Independence School District.
Date: 2007-08-23
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Changes to KCMSD Sub-District Lines Proposed
Description: Article describes concern by members of the Hispanic community about proposed restructuring of the Kansas City Metropolitan School District. The redistricting was made necessary by the transfer of several schools to the Independence, Missouri School District. Hispanic leaders are afraid that new sub-district lines will break up large concentrations of Hispanic students. Other community leaders advocate more diversity in school composition.
Date: 2008-05-22
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: SC23 Kansas City (Mo.) School District Records Finding Aid
Description: This collection contains material transferred from the Kansas City School District to the Kansas City Public Library and the Missouri Valley Special Collections department, primarily in the early to mid 1990s. It has been divided into eight series groups and includes school ledgers and attendance books, photographs, Board of Education minutes on microfilm, school scrapbooks, Westport School District material, the Radio and Television Commission papers, and miscellaneous items as budget control summaries, property register and map, etc. The transfer also included school yearbooks and published school materials which were classified.
Date: 1867/1995~
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: The Nelson Gallery of Art
Description: Section of the Twenty-first Annual Report of the Public Library, Kansas City, Missouri, for Year Ending June 30th, 1902, tells of the transfer of the "entire collection of reproductions of Old Masters, heretofore known as 'The Western Gallery of Art,' to the School District of Kansas City, and its change of name to 'The Nelson Gallery of Art' in recognition of the munificence of the donor, Mr. W. R. Nelson. The nucleus of this collection was presented to the Kansas City Art Association, for the city, in 1897." Because the association did not have a building suitable, the works were displayed and housed in the Kansas City Public Library building.
Date: 1902
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 2, 1909-1937, Page p195
Description: A portion of Kansas City from Independence Avenue south to E. 8th Street and from Oak Street east to Cherry Street, showing buildings, streets and additions. Includes school district equipment storage buildings. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area.
Date: 1909/1937
Object Type: Map

Title: Martin School
Description: Photograph of Martin School at 716 North Garland Avenue in the 1980s. The school, named for school board member Judge Edward L. Martin, originally operated in a building built in 1882. The new building, pictured, opened in 1955 but was closed by the school district due to low enrollment in 1976 as the surrounding area become primarily industrial. The building was sold circa 1981 for industrial/warehouse use.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Seven Oaks School
Description: Photograph of the south side of Seven Oaks School at 3711 Jackson Avenue in the 1980s. The school, designed by school district architect Charles A. Smith, was built in 1926-7. It was closed in 1997 and sold in 2013 to be redeveloped as affordable senior housing.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Horace Mann School
Description: Photograph of the Horace Mann School at 39th and Euclid Streets circa 1980. The building was designed by architect Charles A. Smith and completed in 1904. In a state of disrepair, it was closed by the school district in 1979 and placed for sale the following year. It operated as Brown-Caldwell Christian School from the early 1980s until circa 2007, when it was purchased, with the intention of residential redevelopment, by the Ivanhoe Neighborhood Association. It was damaged in an arson fire in December 2011, leading to its demolition.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Horace Mann School
Description: Photograph of the Horace Mann School at 39th and Euclid Streets circa 1980. The building was designed by architect Charles A. Smith and completed in 1904. In a state of disrepair, it was closed by the school district in 1979 and placed for sale the following year. It operated as Brown-Caldwell Christian School from the early 1980s until circa 2007, when it was purchased, with the intention of residential redevelopment, by the Ivanhoe Neighborhood Association. It was damaged in an arson fire in December 2011, leading to its demolition.
Date: 1980~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Norman School
Description: Photograph of the Norman School at 3514 Jefferson Street, circa 1981, looking north from a parking lot located on the south side of the building. Construction on the school began in 1906, and it was sold by the Kansas City School District to a private developer in 2006. A sign for Unicorn Theater, one of the building's tenants when it operated as the Norman Center for the Arts, is visible above the entrance.
Date: 1981~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Meservey School
Description: Photograph of the Meservey School at 4210 East 45th Street, between Jackson and Spruce Avenues, in the 1980s. Designed by Charles A. Smith and named for local attorney Edwin C. Meservey, the school was built in 1928. It was closed by the school district in 2009.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Paseo High School
Description: Photograph of the Paseo High School building at 4747 Flora Avenue in the 1980s. Designed by school district architect Charles A. Smith, the school was completed in 1926. It was closed in 1990, to be replaced with a new building to house the Paseo Academy for Fine and Performing Arts magnet school on the same site.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: View from Paseo High School
Description: View looking west toward the Plaza from the Paseo High School building at 4747 Flora Avenue in the 1980s. Designed by school district architect Charles A. Smith, the school was completed in 1926. It was closed in 1990, to be replaced with a new building to house the Paseo Academy for Fine and Performing Arts magnet school on the same site.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph, Cityscapes

Title: Norman School
Description: Photograph of the Norman School at 3514 Jefferson Street, circa 1981, looking northwest from Jefferson. Construction on the school began in 1906, and it was sold by the Kansas City School District to a private developer in 2006.
Date: 1981~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Switzer School
Description: Photograph of a 1939 addition to the Switzer School at 1829 Madison Avenue in the 1980s. This addition, adjoining the main 1899 school building to its south, was built using Public Works Administration funds. The Switzer/West campus closed permanently in 2006 and was sold for redevelopment as a residential property in 2015.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Switzer School Primary Unit
Description: Photograph of the southwest corner of the Switzer School Annex building at 1810 Madison Avenue in the 1980s. The annex was built in 1958 to accommodate elementary students, and is linked to buildings east of Madison by a tunnel under the street. The Switzer/West campus closed permanently in 2006 and was sold for redevelopment as a residential property in 2015.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Booker T. Washington School
Description: Photograph of the Booker T. Washington School at 2404 Prospect Avenue in the 1980s. Designed by school district architect William F. Hacnkey and built as the Irving School in 1988, the building was renamed Booker T. Washington School when it became a black school in 1930. The school was closed by the district in 1976 and demolished circa 1990.
Date: 1980~/1989~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: SC86-1 James M. Greenwood Papers Finding Aid
Description: James M. Greenwood was the leading educator in Kansas City for 40 years (1874-1914). In his tenure as superintendent of schools, he became recognized locally, nationally, and internationally. He was born in Illinois on November 15, 1837, and died at his desk on August 1, 1914. Greenwood's papers include correspondence primarily sent to Greenwood (1891-1917); reports and speeches (1906-1913); an unpublished manuscript on the history of Missouri; personal journals (1910, 1914); notebook kept by Mrs. Greenwood (1892-1896); and miscellaneous, primarily personal items. These papers cover the middle to late part of Mr. Greenwood's tenure as Superintendent of the Kansas City School District. A few published items are included but the bulk of the collection is handwritten or typewritten. Mr. Greenwood's interest in mathematics is evident as a subject of his speeches and outlines.
Date: 1891/1941
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Westport High School Yearbook - The Herald
Description: Yearbook for the 1956 class of Westport High School.
Date: 1956
Object Type: Yearbook

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