Southwest Early College Campus

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Southwest Early College Campus
Established 1927, August 2008
Type Public
Grades 6–12
Location 6512 Wornall
Kansas City, Missouri, USA
District KCMSD
Website Official Website

Southwest Early College Campus or SWECC is a college prep middle school and high school campus located at 6512 Wornall Road in Kansas City, Missouri. It is part of the Kansas City, Missouri School District.

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[edit] School Background

Southwest Early College Campus was once Southwest High School of the district and Southwest Charter School that at the start consisted of more than five hundred 7th and 8th graders. It is near and in the Brookside neighborhood at 65th & Wornall only two blocks from Border Star Montessori.

Students will be able to earn a minimum of 20 college credits and also have the opportunity to take college-level courses and prepare for the rigors of college through a mix of training and relationships with professors and master teachers from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. By the time a student graduates from SWECC, they will have earned 20 to 60 hours of college credit from the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

The state-of-the-art SWECC campus will allow students to utilize an on-site planetarium and science laboratories that rival that of many universities. The school will offer a project-based curriculum with extended-day and extended-year opportunities.

The school will open in August 2008 for students in the 6th - 9th grade.

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[edit] Alumni of Southwest High School

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