Southeast High School (Kansas City, Missouri)

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.^[1] It was previously located at 3500 East Meyer Boulevard in the 2006-2007 school year.

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 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.

Notable Alumni

• Bud Abell, former American football linebacker in the American Football League, played for the Kansas City Chiefs^[2]
• June James, NFL player

References

External links

• Southeast High School website
• Southeast High School report card (2000-2004).
• High Class 1958 website
• Southeast High Class 1964 website
• "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.