F. L. Schlagle High School

F. L. Schlagle High School is a public 9–12 school of Kansas City USD 500 at 2214 North 59th Street in Kansas City, Kansas. It opened in 1973 (Wikipedia’s own pages disagree on 1972 vs September 1973) and is named for Frank Leslie Schlagle, superintendent of the Kansas City, Kansas schools 1932–1962 — the same administrator who integrated KCKCC in 1951. Mascot: Stallions. Classification: KSHSAA 5A.¹

Overview

Opened	1973 (Schlagle page: September 1973; Washington page: 1972)1
Address	2214 North 59th Street, Kansas City, KS1
Named for	Frank Leslie Schlagle, USD 500 superintendent 1932–19621
Enrollment	844 (2024–25)1
Athletics	KSHSAA 5A; KCK-Atchison League; Stallions; blue, gold, white1
Website	https://schlagle.kckschools.org/

History

Schlagle opened as part of a pair with J. C. Harmon High School. Wikipedia, citing O. L. Plucker’s 1987 district history, says the new attendance zone was carved from Washington and Wyandotte areas, while a large part of the old Wyandotte zone north of Quindaro Boulevard and east to 12th Street was attached to Washington. Those boundary changes, the article states, increased the Black share at Washington, reduced it at Wyandotte, and established an integrated student body at Schlagle.¹

That desegregation-by-boundary claim rests on a single district-history pamphlet and is carried here as attributed, not independently re-derived.

Athletics and band

Team state titles cited from the KSHSAA records book: 5A boys basketball, 1993 and 1995. Deborah Crawford holds the 4A girls high-jump record of 5’6” (1977). The Marching Stallions use a high-step southern style and, per Wikipedia, perform annually at the Big 12 men’s basketball tournament at t-mobile-center.¹

Wikipedia’s alumni list (including several living public figures) is tagged as possibly unverifiable; this page does not reproduce it.

Sources

See also

• washington-high-school-kck
• j-c-harmon-high-school
• wyandotte-high-school
• kansas-city-kansas-community-college
• Wiki

Footnotes

1. Wikipedia — “F. L. Schlagle High School.” — asserts: 2214 N. 59th St.; USD 500; opened 1973 / named for Frank Leslie Schlagle, superintendent 1932–1962; 844 students 2024–25; 5A Stallions; zone carved from Washington and Wyandotte with Quindaro/12th-Street transfer to Washington (Plucker 1987); opened same year as J. C. Harmon; basketball titles 1993 and 1995; Crawford 1977 high-jump record; marching-band style and Big 12 tournament performances. Companion date conflict: en.wikipedia.org dates the opening 1972. Official site: schlagle.kckschools.org ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸