The Before and After School Program available to families in the Platte County R-3 School District is Y Club. With Y Club before and after school, children in kindergarten through 5th grade will benefit from homework enrichment, physical activity, and small and large group activities with a focus on building community and youth voice and leadership. Full-time and part-time Y Club is available at each of our elementary buildings (Compass, Pathfinder, and Siegrist), along with Y Club on days when school is out of session for inclement weather, seasonal breaks, and other days off (enrollment permitting). Operating hours are each weekday from 6:30 a.m. until school begins, and again after school until 6:00 p.m. Registration is now open. Click here to register.

If you have any questions about the Y Club program, please contact YMCA at (913) 345-9622.

As part of a continued focus on maintaining fiscal accountability, ensuring our tax dollars are spent on Platte County R-3 students, the District requires proof of residency for all returning students annually. Please see attached instructions and webpage. If you have multiple students in the District, only one proof of residency is required.

After completing the process, a hard copy or emailed receipt will be provided to the parent. Parents can show this confirmation to obtain a student's final schedule or class teacher. If you have any questions, please contact the District Education Center at 816-858-5420 or your child's school.

The District has recently finalized its Equity and Inclusion Strategic Plan. This plan serves as a guidance document for the District, and outlines strategies designed to achieve the following goals:

This plan was developed with the Superintendent's Cabinet, District leadership, the District's Parent Advisory and the Staff Equity and Inclusion Committee, and presented to the Board of Education for review and feedback. At this time, we are accepting additional interest to serve on our Parent Advisory. If interested, please complete the following form. After an initial informational and on-boarding session in September, the advisory will meet quarterly.

Current physical forms and acknowledgement of the athletics/activities handbook must be on file in the athletic director’s office for the current school year to be permitted to practice and participate in all sports. This applies to activities for students in grades 7-12. Please see required forms below. The activities handbook acknowledgement is completed with enrollment paperwork.

Dr. Jay Harris, Executive Director of Operations and Dr. Jen Beutel, Executive Director of Pupil Services, shared a draft COVID-19 Health and Safety Plan for the 2021-22 school year at the July meeting.

As conditions around COVID-19 continue to fluctuate, the District is evaluating mitigating measures that can best support a return to more normal operations. Students benefit from in-person learning, and safely continuing in-person instruction for the 2021-22 school year is a priority. Dr. Harris and Dr. Beutel outlined planned protocols (based on current data), as well some mitigation measures that are still under review. Our approach remains focused on layered mitigation strategies with the ability to reinstate or discontinue specific strategies based on community transmission rates. The District will communicate updated plans to families and staff by July 29.

Each month, project managers for our 2021 Bond Program projects, will provide an update on construction projects taking place throughout the District. At the July meeting, Matt St. Louis, project manager with Newkirk Novak Construction Partners, reviewed construction progress on the PCHS Rebuild Phase One project.

The PCHS Rebuild Phase One project site is taking shape as excavation crews worked around more rain this past month. The new gymnasium complex and locker room basement level is nearly cut, and the classroom wing is at subgrade. Excavation for the new baseball field and surrounding sports fields has begun and is the next area of focus, with site utility work including underground storm sewer continuing. Concrete rebar is set for delivery and the contractor will soon begin building concrete walls. Structural steel is in fabrication, and efforts to install temporary roads and parking will begin and finish over the next month, before the start of school.

At the July meeting, the Board of Education approved salary increases in various staff categories as part of the District's strategic goal to attract, retain, and develop a high quality staff. Team Platte County (consisting of a representative team of teachers from across the District), as well as classified (support) staff representatives, recommended step movement on certified salary schedules, and placing the dollar equivalent of a step, plus any additional dollars into the base salary amount on classified schedules (this strategy maximizes the impact to ensure every position within the schedule becomes more competitive, and is not to be confused with a schedule freeze, as all employees will receive a raise). Classified range changes were recommended for the following job groups: Nurses, Parents as Teachers, Grounds/Warehouse, Building Aide 2, Lead Mechanic, and Library Media Aides. The recommendation as a result of this collaborative effort was used to ensure all available dollars were distributed based on current and trend data of the District's ranking and market comparisons of every job classification. This strategy will make our schedules more competitive with surrounding districts, thus increasing the District's ability to attract high quality staff. Average increases by staff category are listed below.

As part of the District's on-going efforts to maintain its fleet of student devices, the Board of Education approved a contingent purchase of 1,500 Chromebooks to be used to update elementary student devices, previously stocked by using older off-lease devices. The purchase is contingent on approval of an Emergency Connectivity Fund grant through the federal government.

At the July meeting, a new approach to middle school intramurals was presented to the Board. The new approach provides a more comprehensive after school program for all students in grades 6th-8th that focuses on academic assistance, physical activities, and educational games. The new program aims to target activities of a wide range of student interests for the purpose of exposing students to skills for a healthy and successful life. The new program will begin the 2nd quarter of the 2021-22 school year. This program is in addition to the interscholastic activities offerings already in place for middle school students.

District administration communicated their intent to not use AMI days during the 2021-22 school year, unless the number of inclement weather days would require the school year to go past Memorial Day (including using President's Day and Good Friday that are currently built in make up days). The decision allows for traditional "inclement weather days" while not cutting into students' summer break. The decision on how and when to use AMI days in future years will be a point of discussion and exploration moving forward.

August 24: First Day of School

August 26: Board of Education Meeting, 6:30pm, (reconvene from closed session which begins at 5:30pm)

September 3: Pirates ROCK Kickoff and Community Tailgate

September 6: Labor Day, No School

September 15: PLC Day, 2-hour early dismissal

Thank you to all our Pirates ROCK Star business partners who support character education in our schools! And thank you to our District-wide Pirates ROCK Star partner, Tradition Home Group.

Vision: Building Learners of Tomorrow...

Mission: To prepare individual learners for success in life, 

Values: Student Focus, Collaboration, High Expectations, Integrity, Visionary Leadership, Innovation, Results Orientation