North Kansas City board approves updated facilities plan, recommends rebuilding Northgate Middle School and moving Antioch earlier in bond schedule

The North Kansas City School District Board of Education on Tuesday approved an updated long‑range facilities plan that would rebuild Northgate Middle School as a new facility and move Antioch Elementary into phase 1 of the current bond schedule.

At a presentation before the vote, district staff described structural and programmatic problems at Northgate, including nine internal level changes that limit accessibility, frequent elevator maintenance, undersized special‑education and music spaces and the loss of the school’s broadcast studio to a repurposed sensory room. “We can give…