Type Public School district KCMSD Website Southeast High website Founded 1937 | Established 1937 Grades 11–12 Mascot Scarlet Knights | |
District Kansas City Public Schools Headquarters Kansas City, Missouri, United States | ||
Southeast High School is a high school in the same building as Manual Career & Technical Center, located at 1215 East Truman Road in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. It is part of the Kansas City, Missouri School District. It was previously located at 3500 East Meyer Boulevard in the 2006-2007 school year.
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School background
Southeast High School was founded in 1937 at 3500 East Meyer Boulevard, and is currently the African Centered Education Collegium Campus. The new magnet school was established as a means to reconnect African-American students with African traditions. The school mascot is the Scarlet Knight.
Southeast had been was a KCMO public high school from the 1930s until it was reestablished in 1997. The mascot was simply "the Knights." Until the late 1960s, most of the students were white. As more black families moved from the inner city to the more middle-class southeastern section of KC, white families began to flee to the suburbs. As a result, the Southeast's student body rapidly changed to majority black by the early 1970s. For the most part, the transition was peaceful.