Southwest Early College Campus

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Southwest Early College Campus
Location
Map
6512 Wornall Road
KCMSD
Grades7–12
Enrollment376 (2015-16)[1]
Color(s)   Orange and black
MascotIndian
Websitekcpublicschools.org/southwest

Southwest Early College Campus, often shortened to Southwest, was a

Kansas City, Missouri School District. The school closed on May 17, 2016.[2]

School background

Southwest Early College Campus was founded as

Brookside
neighborhood at 65th and Wornall, only two blocks from what is now Border Star Montessori.

Students had the opportunity to take college-level courses with the potential to earn from 20 to 60 college credits and prepare for the rigors of college through a mix of training and relationships with professors and master teachers from the

college credit
from the university.

The Southwest campus allowed students to utilize an on-site planetarium and science laboratories. The school offered a project-based curriculum with extended-day and extended-year opportunities.

The school opened in August 2008 for students in the 6th and 9th grade. The school later added grades 6, 7, 9, and 10.

The Early College Campus started with 240 students, and added approximately another 240 every year.

After the closure of Westport High School in 2010, Southwest Early College Campus took over the attendance zone of Westport.[3][4]

Partnerships

In late 2011, the school's partner institutions announced they would discontinue working with the school as they saw it as being unable to meet its obligations.[5]

  • Kansas City, Missouri School District
  • UMKC
  • Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
  • PREP-KC (Partnership for Regional Education Preparation - Kansas City)
  • Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute
  • Donnelly College

References

  1. ^ "SOUTHEAST HIGH SCHOOL". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
  2. ^ Andrea Tudhope (12 May 2016). "As Kansas City's Southwest High School Closes, Graduates Look Back On A Storied Past". KCUR. Archived from the original on 13 May 2016. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
  3. Kansas City, Missouri School District
    . Retrieved on January 20, 2011. "Southwest Early College Campus – (Assumes Westport High boundaries)"
  4. Kansas City, Missouri School District
    . Retrieved on January 20, 2011.
  5. ^ Joe Robertson (28 October 2011). "Partners pull out of Southwest's early college program". Kansas City Star. Archived from the original on 31 October 2011. Retrieved 1 September 2018.

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