Central High School (Kansas City, Missouri)

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Central High School in Kansas City, Missouri, is a public high school in the Kansas City Public Schools district. Founded in 1867, it moved to its current campus at 3221 Indiana Avenue in 1912. The school colors are blue and white, and the teams are called the Blue Eagles. It serves grades 9–12, with about 534 students and a student-teacher ratio of around 12.8 to 1. The principal is Anthony Holland, Jr. The campus features a large one-acre field house, a Greek-style theatre, and an Olympic-sized swimming pool.

In the past, Central hosted a magnet program that combined Computers Unlimited and Classical Greek themes. The program was later dropped, and the school was renamedCentral Academy of Excellence for the 2012–2013 school year. In 2019, the official name returned to Central High School. The school’s website is www.kcpublicschools.org/central, and the yearbook is The Centralian. The athletics conference is the Interscholastic League.