Many KC area schools are closing for Tuesday’s Royals parade

A number of Kansas City area schools including Kansas City, Mo., Kansas City, Kan., the Shawnee Mission, Blue Valley, Independence, Fort Osage, Park Hill, Tonganoxie and Olathe districts, have opted to close on Tuesday to allow students and teachers to attend the Royals’ World Series win parade.

Some charter schools and private schools, including Academie Lafayette, Saint Thomas More, Visitation, Our Lady of the Presentation, St. Peter’s, St. James Liberty, Notre Dame de Sion and Rockhurst high schools, also will be closed on Tuesday.

Districts that are open said teachers are expected to be in school unless it is an absolute emergency because the pool of substitutes has run dry for the day.

Kansas City Public Schools was among the last to cancel school. School officials said they did so because “the parade route will disrupt KCPS bus routes, making it difficult to get children home until well after their normal school closing time.”

Several districts are treating it as a snow day and plan to make up the day later in the year.

Metropolitan Community College-KC and Johnson County Community College are closing for the day.

Missouri Southern State University is holding classes, but its 20-member drum line will be in Kansas City to entertain the crowd along the parade route.

Here is a list of schools and districts closing so far:

Acadamie Lafayette

Blue Springs School District

Blue Valley School District

Bonner Springs/Edwardsville Schools

Center School District

De Soto School District

Excelsior Springs School District

Fort Osage School District

Gardner-Edgerton Schools

Grain Valley School District

Grandview School District

Hickman Mills School District

Hogan Prepatory School

Independence School District

Kansas City, Kan. Public School District

Kansas City Public School District

Leavenworth USD 453

Liberty School District

Metropolitan Community College

Midway

Missouri City School District

Notre Dame de Sion

Oak Grove R-VI School District

Olathe School District

Osage School District

Our Lady of the Presentation

Park Hill School District

Platte County School District

Raymore-Peculiar School District

Raytown School District

Rockhurst

Shawnee Mission School District

St. James, Liberty

St. Peter’s

Saint Thomas More

Tonganoxie School District

Visitation School

This story was originally published November 2, 2015 at 3:02 PM with the headline "Many KC area schools are closing for Tuesday’s Royals parade."