Center High School

Ben Ellis, a teacher at Center Middle School, recently received an award as the outstanding educational partner from the National Institute for Construction Excellence (NICE). The...

What do you get when you bring over 600 students from 25 different schools together for a meeting about student government? Well, for starters you get noise. Lots of enthusiast...

The Center School District is excited to announce a new member of our leadership team as we welcome Dr. Amy Casey who joins Center as the Assistant Superintendent of Accelerated ...

The Center School District is excited to welcome five new members to the District's leadership team to start the 2023-24 school year. Dr. Dawn Smith will serve as the As...

Center School District has the very important job of helping ALL kids in our community learn and prepare for life. The people who work at Center are the heart and soul of making ...

On Saturday evening, June 10th, over 180 alumni, community members and Center staff celebrated the induction of 11 individuals and 4 teams into the Center High School Athletic Hal...

The journey to create a community table for Crow's Coffee at Red Bridge Shopping Center began nearly a year ago with a casual conversation with Zach Moores, the owner of Crow's. I...

The Center Yellowjacket Rocketry Team is going to Nationals!!! You didn't know that Center High School has a Rocketry Team? You are not alone. Let me tell you the story of a sma...

UPDATE - thanks to the good people at BLOC (Brothers Liberating Our Community), we now have access to a full video of the panel discussion. Click here to view it. When you loo...

Center High School is pleased to announce the members of the 2023 induction class for the CHS Athletic Hall of Fame: Coach Vick Bland - coached at Center South Junior High Sch...

The recent shootings in Nashville once again highlight the challenges of keeping our schools, staff members, and students safe in a world that is all too violent. A national or...

Yesterday I had the opportunity to walk through the halls of Center High School after conducting an interview with our State Qualifiers in Wrestling (that's another story coming s...

Two accomplishments were celebrated this week that, while totally unrelated, highlight for me what makes the Center School District special. The first was in our larger commun...

Real World Learning (RWL), a city-wide initiative led by the Ewing M Kauffman Foundation, is turning the world of education upside down (in a good way). On Wednesday Febru...

For individuals of a certain age, memories of high school Woodshop are vivid. Woodshop was a “rite of passage” for many students (mostly male) providing a break from “writing, rea...

As we shared with you last week, members of the Center High School Student Government Association (SGA) planned to jump in a lake last Saturday to raise money for Special Olympic...

Jumping into a near freezing lake in January in Kansas City might not seem like “fun” to most people, but for the members of the Student Government Association (SGA) at Center Hig...

After an amazing 11-1 season, including both Conference and District championships, the Center Yellowjacket football program is receiving plenty of post-season recognition. One of...

When we last talked about the future of the Administration building at 8701 Holmes back in September, we were busily preparing to move the rest of the staff to a new office at the...

When we last talked about the tables being built by the CHS Advanced Woodshop class for Crow’s Coffee, the student designers had met with owner Zach Moores about what he wanted. S...