Neighborhoods near Girard High School in Girard, KS

Pittsburg, KS, home to Pittsburg State University, offers affordable midcentury housing. Residents enjoy Mined Land Wildlife Area and city parks. The university brings cultural events to this Southeast Kansas college town.

Progressive publishing houses once enlivened the small city of Girard, which was known in the 1900s as a bastion of socialist ideals. Today, the printing presses are quiet, and the town of 2,500 is a sleepy rural hub on the Kansas-Missouri border. “It’s a great small town that’s close to shopping and has a great school system,” says Shelly