- Southwest Early College Campus
Infobox Secondary school
name = Southwest Early College Campus
established = 1927, August 2008
type = Public
principal = Steven Scraggs
students =Brandon Haynes, Terrence Johnson, Desmond Washington, Marquon Brown, Marlon Williams, Sean Scott, Eric Pope.....
grades = 6–12
city = 6512 Wornall Road
Kansas City
state =Missouri
country = USA
district = KCMSD
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website = [http://www2.kcmsd.net/pages/swecc.aspx Official Website]Southwest Early College Campus or Southwest is a
college prep middle school andhigh school campus located at 6512 Wornall Road inKansas City, Missouri . It is part of theKansas City, Missouri School District .chool Background
Southwest Early College Campus was once Southwest High School of the district and Southwest Charter School that at the start consisted of more than five hundred 7th and 8th graders. It is near and in the Brookside neighborhood at 65th & Wornall only two blocks from Border Star Montessori.
Students will be able to earn a minimum of 60 college credits and also have the opportunity to take college-level courses and prepare for the rigors of college through a mix of training and relationships with professors and master teachers from the
University of Missouri-Kansas City . By the time a student graduates from SWECC, they will have earned 20 to 60 hours ofcollege credit from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. To re-state the minimum college credits is 60.It depends on how fast the student can learn and how much the student puts into geting his/her college credits.The
state-of-the-art SWECC campus will allow students to utilize an on-siteplanetarium and science laboratories that rival that of manyuniversities . The school will offer a project-basedcurriculum with extended-day and extended-year opportunities.The school will open in August 2008 for students in the 6th - 9th grade.
Parterships
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Kansas City, Missouri School District
* UMKC
*Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
* PREP-KC (Partnership for Regional Education Preparation - Kansas City)
* Kansas City Area Life Sciences InstituteAlumni of Southwest High School
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Henry Bloch - co-founder ofH&R Block
*Richard Bloch - co-founder ofH&R Block
*Richard Smalley - 1961 Nobel Prize winner
* [http://www.jamesbnutter.com/ James B. Nutter] - noted real estate magnate
* Michael Jones - pro football playerReferences
* [http://www2.kcmsd.net/pages/swecc.aspx Southwest Early College Campus Official Website]
* [http://www2.kcmsd.net/Lists/News1/DispForm.aspx?ID=147&Source=http%3A%2F%2Fwww2%2Ekcmsd%2Enet%2FPages%2Fdefault%2Easpx New Southwest Early College Campus Promises Exciting Opportunity for Students]Making New History
Brandon Haynes first VP(Vice President)-This young man has a bright future ahead of him. He is one of many students that have his future planed out for him. With dreams of going to the Uniavesaity or Texas,Austin to play football and becoming a architect."I am going to become all that i can be. With the help of Southwest Early College Campus i am going to make it". The words of Brandon Haynes himself he and all of the student body of SWECC are going to make it.
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