It&#x27;s not just that—not every Missouri-side Kansas City address goes to KCMO schools. Many don&#x27;t. Everything north of the river, for example. Source: my wife has been teaching or subbing in the region for years, we have a KCMO address, and we&#x27;re ~8 miles away from the nearest KCMO school district boundary. Some of the non-KCMO districts serving KCMO addresses are damn good, actually (Platte, for example).<p>There appears to be some confusion of KCMO <i>the school district</i> with KCMO <i>the city</i> (let alone the metro area).<p>I noted that elsewhere, and got down voted for it for some reason. There&#x27;s segregation, yes, but it doesn&#x27;t work quite the way that&#x27;s implied, even if we only consider the city proper—I <i>highly</i> doubt a majority of white people in KCMO are sending their kids to private schools. In the KCMO <i>school district</i>, OK, that could be. Maybe I came off as defending the situation, despite calling out that there is indeed segregation? Who knows.