Southeast African Centered High School
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Southeast African Centered High School, also referred to as Southeast High School is a comprehensive secondary school located in Kansas City, Missouri which teaches grades 9 through 12. Founded in 1997, the school was established as a means to reconnect the African traditions of the past. The school mascot is The Black Knight. As of 2005, the school principal is Principal Teresia Gilyard.
According to the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, Southeast High has a history of poor graduation rates, as low as 49.8% in 2001 and as high as 66% in 2000.
The Kansas City Police Department reports that it has responded to more than 800 incidents at the school between 2000-2005. Police have responded to incidents ranging from fires, bomb threats, assaults and sexual offenses. Two rapes were reported during the 2004-2005 school year. On April 8, 2005, four fires were intentionally set within the school on the same day students were supposed to take state assessment tests which resulted in the arrest of five students, two forced evacuations and a routine evacuation before class was closed for the day.
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- Southeast High School report card (2000-2004).
- "Security bolstered at KC high school", The Kansas City Star, Deann Smith.
- "Security cameras at trouble-prone KC school hadn't been working", The Kansas City Star (AP).
- "Fires Set, Fight Breaks Out At Southeast High School", KMBC-TV.
