Editing Joplin, Missouri (section)

===Primary and secondary education===
The majority of Joplin is in the [[Joplin R-VIII School District]].<ref name=2020CensusSDMapJasperCo>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st29_mo/schooldistrict_maps/c29097_jasper/DC20SD_C29097.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Jasper County, MO|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|access-date=2024-11-22}} - [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st29_mo/schooldistrict_maps/c29097_jasper/DC20SD_C29097_SD2MS.txt Text list]</ref><ref name=2020CensusSDMapNewtonCo>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st29_mo/schooldistrict_maps/c29145_newton/DC20SD_C29145.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Newton County, MO|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|access-date=2024-11-22}} - [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st29_mo/schooldistrict_maps/c29145_newton/DC20SD_C29145_SD2MS.txt Text list]</ref> Joplin is home to 10 public elementary schools in the Joplin school district: Cecil Floyd, Dover Hill, Eastmorland, Irving, Jefferson, Kelsey Norman, McKinley, Royal Heights, Soaring Heights, and Stapleton. It has three public middle schools, East, North, and South, and one high school, [[Joplin High School]]. The first high school was founded in 1885 and was located at the intersection of West 4th Street and Byers Ave.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.joplineagles.org/|title=www.joplineagles.org|website=www.joplineagles.org|access-date=2016-05-11}}</ref> The JHS student population was nearly 2,200 children in the 2008–2009 school year.<ref>[http://www.joplin.k12.mo.us/Schools/index.htm Joplin Schools Website, School Information] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110319023154/http://www.joplin.k12.mo.us/Schools/index.htm |date=March 19, 2011 }}</ref> A school bond issue for $57.4&nbsp;million was passed in April 2007, allowing the district to build two new middle schools (East and South Middle Schools) to replace the old Memorial and South Middle schools, and to give a major renovation and double the size of North Middle School.<ref>[http://www.joplin.k12.mo.us/headlines/0607/040507_newmidschools.htm Joplin Schools Website, New Middle School Plan Approved by Voters] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100327201555/http://www.joplin.k12.mo.us/headlines/0607/040507_newmidschools.htm |date=March 27, 2010 }}</ref>

Parts of Joplin in Jasper County extend into [[Webb City R-VII School District]]<!--UNI 31500--> and [[Carl Junction R-I School District]]<!--UNI 07350-->.<ref name=2020CensusSDMapJasperCo/> Parts of Joplin in Newton County extend into Carl Junction R-I School District,<!--UNI 07350--> [[Diamond R-IV School District]]<!--UNI 10800-->, and [[Seneca R-VII School District]]<!--UNI 27900-->.<ref name=2020CensusSDMapNewtonCo/>

Joplin also has many private schools, such as New Heights Christian Academy, Martin Luther School, [[Thomas Jefferson Independent Day School]], Christ's Community Discovery School, and more. St. Mary's Catholic Elementary School, St. Peter's Middle School, and [[McAuley Catholic High School (Joplin, Missouri)|McAuley Catholic High School]] are private Catholic schools established in 1885.

[[Image:Joplin Carnegie Library.jpg|thumb|Carnegie Library in Joplin, 2009]]

Missouri Schools for the Severely Disabled (MSSD) is a state operated program serving Missouri students with severe disabilities in the greater Joplin area at College View State School.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Strange|first=Lainie|date=2014-03-03|title=Missouri Schools for the Severely Disabled|url=https://dese.mo.gov/special-education/missouri-schools-severely-disabled|access-date=2020-07-04|website=Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education|language=en}}</ref>