School Desegregation and White Flight
On the Missouri side, many residents formerly sent their children to Southwest High School, a public school in the Kansas City School District. At its peak in the mid-1960s, Southwest High School had more than 2,400 students, 20 percent of whose parents were Southwest alumni. After the end of racial segregation in schools under Brown v. Board of Education, however, Kansas City, Missouri, experienced considerable "white flight." By the 1997-1998 school year, Southwest's final year in existence, enrollment had dropped to below 500. Today, nearly all residents of the Missouri side of the Country Club District send their children to elite private schools, including the Pembroke Hill School, The Barstow School, Rockhurst High School, St. Teresa's Academy and Notre Dame de Sion.
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