Education Alternatives in Kansas City Missouri

Kansas City has a wide variety of elementary and secondary schools to choose from. Served by 13 different school districts and holding 11 different private schools, a good education is not hard to come by. The Park Hill School District alone consists of 1 day school, 1 early childhood education program, 1 community education program, 9 elementary schools, 3 middle schools and 2 high schools. The Blue Springs R-IV School District has 13 elementary schools, 4 middle schools and 4 high schools.

Kansas City also contains 12 private schools. The private schools of Kansas City include Rockhurst High School, a Roman Catholic Jesuit preparatory school for boys, St. Teresa's Academy, an all-girls Roman Catholic high school, and The Barstow School, a co-ed nonsectarian preparatory school.

Kansas City holds 8 universities, 5 colleges, the Kansas City Art Institute, and two Theological Seminaries (Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminarie and Nazarene Theological Seminarie). The universities include the public University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC for short), and the Avila University, a private catholic university established in 1916. Colleges include Calvary Bible College, Vatterott College, and the Metropolitan Community College - Kansas City (MCC)