This is our exploration of one of the many abandoned schools in Kansas City. Part 2 will be coming out next week, showing the other school that is connected to this one.
Something I forgot to mention or talk about is that safe up by the office. When I was a student there they stored student medication in there, they also stored student brought in Weapons and contraband items. I attended that school for 3 years and in my time there, there was a student that was beaten to death by another student with a locker lock, there were at least 3 incidents of a student bringing a gun into school, various knives found daily ect ect. the school had metal detectors on the front doors (if your facing the office they were to the left hand side. We had security officers that were patting us down every morning, looking through our backpacks purses ect ect. That large pit down the center was in fact the library, (I read every book in there in 3 years and the librarian would bring an loan me books from her own stash). That school brings back a lot of good and a lot of bad memories for me. The good ones were of some amazing teachers. My Social Studies teacher for sixth grade was David Fulbright he was a great teacher and a skilled minister whose wise words touch my heart to this day. he is very missed.
That School is Mary Harmon Weeks and Martin Luther King Jr at 4201 Indiana buildings A and B I know that school I went to MLKJR those two room with the grey tiers were the Vocal and instrumental classrooms, they were also used for debate classes as well.
A lot of KCSD schools have in the past few decades either closed or transferred to neighboring school districts. About half of the school buildings in the Raytown district are actually in Kansas City, not Raytown, and a few years back Van Horn High School transferred from KC to Independence.
its very interesting, yet kind of sad too because I feel like it was in pretty good condition and it had the potential to be a good school before it was left untouched which makes the whole building process to piece everything together to waste. I wonder why they left it right after. Also, this video is very fascinating, I want to watch videos like these so keep it up man!
It was a great set of schools and had a very savvy design with the tunnel connection the lunch room was dual purpose serving both weeks and MLKJR with staggered lunch periods.
I attended the school around 2011-13. I’ve always wanted to explore it, but could never find a way in. I believe the building rotting took a big part in its closure since it had become a real safety hazard. Weeks was already closed and condemned when I went to school there.
Kansas city schools lost their accreditation and forced a lot of schools to close due to a lack of funding, overcrowding, and eventually lack of enrollment.
Did a guy run into you while you were doing that? Our friend who went a couple days ago, mentioned he ran into some people with pick axes trying to get in there 😂
Your friend scared the hell out of us we thought there was police there so we hid and they walked straight into the room we were in, I think they might have been recording too I’d love to see the clip if he was😭🤣
