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Platte County School District Number 3
Platte County School District #3 is a public school district based in Platte City, Missouri, United States. Geography Platte County School District #3 serves Platte County, Missouri, Platte County. The school district encloses some of Kansas City International Airport. Schools The school district is split into two campuses. The original campus is the Platte City campus, within the town limits of Platte City. It includes the following schools. * Great Beginnings, Preschool & Early Childhood * Compass Elementary, Grades K-5 * Siegrist Elementary, Grades K-5 * Platte City Middle School, Grades 6-8 * Platte County High School, Grades 9-12 * Northland Career Center, Area Vocational-Technical School The Barry Heights neighborhood in the south part of the county is the location of the Barry campus, which includes: * Pathfinder Elementary, Grades K-4 * Barry School, Grades 5-8 + Early Childhood Student demographics Up from 1,886 students in the 1996â1997 school year, the distric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
School District
A school district is a special-purpose district that operates local public primary and secondary schools in various nations. North America United States In the U.S, most Kâ12 public schools function as units of local school districts, which usually operate several schools, and the largest urban and suburban districts operate hundreds of schools. While practice varies significantly by state (and in some cases, within a state), most American school districts operate as independent local governmental units under a grant of authority and within geographic limits created by state law. The executive and legislative power over locally controlled policies and operations of an independent school district are, in most cases, held by a school district's board of education. Depending on state law, members of a local board of education (often referred to informally as a school board) may be elected, appointed by a political office holder, serve ex officio, or a combination of any of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platte County, Missouri
Platte County is a county located in the northwestern portion of the U.S. state of Missouri and is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the population was 106,718. Its county seat is Platte City. The county was organized December 31, 1838, from the Platte Purchase, named for the Platte River. (''Platte'' is derived from the French word for a low, shallow, or intermittent stream.) The Kansas City International Airport is located in the county, approximately one mile west of Interstate 29 between mile markers 12 and 15. The land for the airport was originally in an unincorporated portion of Platte County before being annexed by Platte City, and eventually Kansas City. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (1.5%) is water. The county's southwestern border with Kansas is formed by the Missouri River. Adjacent counties * Buchanan County (north) *Clinton County (northeast) *Clay County ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansas City International Airport
Kansas City International Airport (originally Mid-Continent International Airport) is a public airport in Kansas City, Missouri located northwest of Downtown Kansas City in Platte County, Missouri., effective December 30, 2021. The airport opened in 1972 and replaced Kansas City Municipal Airport (MKC) with all scheduled passenger airline flights being moved from MKC to MCI. It serves the Kansas City Metropolitan Area and is the primary passenger airport for much of western Missouri and eastern Kansas. The airport covers and has three runways. The airport has always been a civilian airport and has never had an Air National Guard unit assigned to it. Since the shut-down of the 2020 pandemic, the number of peak-day scheduled aircraft departures has been steadily recovering. As of October, 2022, there were 303 daily arrivals and departures. Nonstop service was offered to 47 airports, including Cancun and Toronto. History Beginnings Kansas City Industrial Airport was built af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platte County High School
Platte County High School, located in Platte City, Missouri, is the only high school in the Platte County R-3 School District. It serves students in Platte County. Campus The building itself has been expanded several times from its original configuration, with additional wings built over the years, including an auditorium and choir/band room. In the summer of 2005, a new middle school was built, and the district's original middle school, which was attached to the high school via a single narrow hallway, was incorporated into the high school. A new main entrance, library, and atrium were built in what was formerly an open courtyard between the high school and middle school. Also in the summer of 2009, there was a new choir room acoustically built for the choir members. The building has three offices: a technology department, an attendance office, and a central office. The campus itself also has three basketball courts, a field house, an auxiliary gym, a football field (with F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of School Districts In Missouri
This is an alphabetical list of school districts in Missouri, sorted first by the state supervisors of instruction regions, the counties each region serves, and then alphabetically. Region A: St. Louis Region Jefferson County * Crystal City 47 School District * DeSoto 73 School District * Dunklin R-V School District * Festus R-VI School District * Fox C-6 Consolidated School District * Grandview R-2 School District * Hillsboro R-3 School District * Jefferson County R-7 School District * Northwest R-I School District * Sunrise R-9 School District * Windsor C-1 School District St. Charles County * Francis Howell R-III School District * Fort Zumwalt R-II School District * Orchard Farm R-V School District * St. Charles R-VI School District * Wentzville R-IV School District St. Louis City * St. Louis City Public Schools St. Louis County * Affton 101 School District * Bayless School District * Brentwood School District * Clayton School District * Ferguson-Flor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Education In Platte County, Missouri
Education is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty. Various researchers emphasize the role of critical thinking in order to distinguish education from indoctrination. Some theorists require that education results in an improvement of the student while others prefer a value-neutral definition of the term. In a slightly different sense, education may also refer, not to the process, but to the product of this process: the mental states and dispositions possessed by educated people. Education originated as the transmission of cultural heritage from one generation to the next. Today, educational goals increasingly encompass new ideas such as the liberation of learners, skills needed for modern society, empathy, and complex vocational skills. Types of education are commonly divided into formal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
