KC-area middle schoolers to go to class in community college after fire damage
Students and staff at Kansas City, Kansas’s Arrowhead Middle School will carry out their school days at the city’s community college while the local school district addresses damages from a recent fire.
Cleanup at Arrowhead Middle School after a fire that caught in the campus’s boiler room last week will take between four and six weeks, according to a Kansas City, Kansas, Public Schools statement on Monday evening. The district said it needs that time to clean up soot spread throughout the building during the fire.
Meanwhile, Kansas City Kansas Community College – located about a two mile drive east from the original campus – will host the school’s staff and students.
“We are deeply appreciative of both KCKCC and Homefield KC for their partnership and flexibility in accommodating our students and staff during these unexpected circumstances,” according to the statement. “We will continue to provide regular updates as more information becomes available.
As of Monday, the district said it hadn’t determined what caused the Aug. 18 fire but confirmed it was not related to a November 2024 fire at the school that similarly prompted an evacuation. That fire, contained to a classroom, started due to a mechanical HVAC failure and left the room and a nearby hallway moderately damaged by smoke.
The Star’s Caroline Zimmerman and Nathan Pilling contributed to this report
