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Derby USD 260, also known as Derby Public Schools, is a public unified school district headquartered in Derby, Kansas, United States. [1] The district includes the communities of Derby, Oaklawn-Sunview , McConnell Air Force Base , small southern parts of Wichita , and nearby rural areas. [ 2 ]
Derby High School, formally Derby Senior High School, has been located in four different buildings since 1911. The current Derby High School building, which is located East of Rock Road, North of Madison and South of James, was completed in the Fall of 1993 and is the largest high school building in Kansas in terms of square footage. [7]
The airport had limited area for expansion (Fairfax Airport across the Missouri River in Kansas City, Kansas, covered a larger area). Airplanes had to avoid the 200-foot (60 m) Quality Hill and the Downtown Kansas City skyline south of the south end of the main runway. In the early 1960s, an FAA memo called it "the most dangerous major airport ...
The airport property was in an unincorporated area of Platte County until the small town of Platte City, Missouri, annexed the airport during construction. Kansas City eventually annexed the airport. Kivett and Myers designed the terminals and control tower; it was dedicated on October 23, 1972, by U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew.
This is a list of universities, colleges, seminaries, and schools (and their school districts) in Kansas City, Missouri and the surrounding Kansas City metropolitan area. School districts included: Independence , North Kansas City , Park Hill , Kansas City, Kansas , Kansas City, Missouri , Belton , Hickman Mills , Oak Grove , Liberty , Platte ...
Voters in school districts across south-central Kansas will select new school board members on Nov. 7. Here are candidates for key races in suburban Wichita. Derby USD 260 School Board
This is a list of airports in Kansas (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
Sweeney Airport was named in 1925, and the 403 Pursuit Squadron was assigned to Kansas City at the end of 1925. [5] The "Fairfax plat" map with the airport was drawn on April 1, 1925, as an area "of 1,373.07 acres" outside the city limits divided as follows: "The Kansas City Industrial Land Company owned 1,122.85 acres; the Union Pacific Railroad Company owned 32.80 acres; eight private owners ...