Editing Atchison, Kansas (section)

==Education==

===Colleges===
* [[Benedictine College]]
* Northeast Kansas Technical College
* Highland Community College Technical Center

===Primary and secondary===
The community is served by [[Atchison USD 409]] public school district, which operates four schools, and serves more than 1,600 students.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/ks/district_profile/26/| title=Atchison Public Schools schools| access-date=2006-07-15| publisher=GreatSchools.net}}</ref> In 1997 the Atchison Public Schools closed six of its neighborhood school buildings to open one large elementary school. Although schools had been desegregated for more than 50 years, this move ensured more diversity and equality of education by uniting different segments of the city's children into one school. A few of the old neighborhood schools still stand - one, known as Lincoln school at 810 Division Street was historically a segregated school for black children. Many entities have attempted to restore Lincoln School, which is on the Kansas State Register of Historic Places.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://khri.kansasgis.org/| title=Kansas Historic Resources Inventory 005-0260-00903 Lincoln School, 810 Division St. Atchison.| access-date=2006-07-15| publisher=kansasgis.org/}}</ref>
* [[Atchison High School]], grades 9–12<ref>{{cite web|url=http://usd409.net/vnews/display.v/SEC/AHS |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060207042702/http://usd409.net/vnews/display.v/SEC/AHS |url-status=dead |archive-date=2006-02-07 |title=Atchison Public Schools - AHS |date=2006-02-06 |access-date=2019-12-27}}</ref>
* Atchison Middle School, grades 6–8
* Atchison Elementary School, grades K–5
* Atchison Alternative School, grades 6-12

Private schools in the city include:
* [[Maur Hill Mount Academy]]
* Trinity Lutheran School
* St. Benedict Catholic School (was renamed from Atchison Catholic Elementary School in 2013)