Hillsboro Schools

Hillsboro USD 410

Hillsboro students attend school in the Hillsboro Unified School District 410. Total enrollment as of 2015 for USD 410 is 597. Students can participate in a variety of activities including TSA, FCCLA and Scholar’s Bowl.

Tabor College

At Tabor they strive to prepare people for a life of learning, work and service for Christ and His kingdom. This mission is accomplished by giving students a decidedly Christian education. It is what sets them apart and fosters the growth and strength they cherish here at Tabor College.

(Source- Dr. Jules Glanzer-tabor.edu)

Hillsboro Lifestyle

Welcome to Hillsboro Kansas, gateway to Marion Reservoir Lake. Located on the edge of the picturesque Flint Hills, Hillsboro residents are in touch with nearly one million people in less than an hour’s drive

Hillsboro’s 3000 residents enjoy living in a progressive town in a rural agricultural setting. Our strong educational system is enhanced by a multi-million dollar athletic stadium recently completed as a joint venture between USD 410 and Tabor College. Hillsboro has an aggressive business climate with an active industrial park and is home to a number of businesses including two trailer manufacturing firms, feed mill and Golden Heritage Foods (one of the nation’s leading producers of processed honey) to name a few.

(Source- City of Hillsboro-www.cityofhillsboro.net)

Hillsboro Transportation

Wichita to the South, Salina to the North, Hutchinson to the West and Emporia to the East. Two state highways intersect at Hillsboro providing quick access to the Interstate system, Hwy 56 traveling East and West and Hwy 15 heading North and South.

(Source- City of Hillsboro-www.cityofhillsboro.net)

Hillsboro Local Attractions/Activities

Hillsboro is home to a variety of restaurants including Panda Kitchen and Little Pleasures. Hillsboro Municipal Golf Course is a great place to spend a day out working on your golf game. Surrounding towns like Wichita and Hutchinson offer a variety of attractions.

Sedgwick County Zoo

Sedgwick County Zoo, located in Northwest Wichita, was established by the volunteer efforts of civic-minded citizens who formed the Sedgwick County Zoological Society in 1963, many years before the Zoo would take shape. When the American and Asian farms opened as the only exhibits in 1971, families were pleased, but they had little idea of the great things that were in store. Now gorillas, penguins and tigers inspire more than 500,000 guests annually. Enjoy our array of exhibits year-round!  The Zoo is open 364 days a year.

Kansas Cosmosphere Space Center

What is now one of the world’s premier space museums was once the dream of a Hutchinson civic leader, Patricia Brooks Carey. Her vision to create one of the first public planetariums in the central United States had humble beginnings. In 1962, the Hutchinson Planetarium opened inside the Poultry Building on the Kansas State Fairgrounds with a used star projector and rented folding chairs.

Four years later, the Hutchinson Planetarium relocated to the campus of Hutchinson Community College, in what today houses Dr. Goddard’s Lab.

In 1976, Carey and the Hutchinson Planetarium’s board of directors began planning to significantly expand the facility. They sought the advice of former employee Max Ary, who had worked for the planetarium while going to college. Ary was the director of Ft. Worth’s Noble Planetarium at the time and happened to be serving on a Smithsonian committee that placed tens of thousands of space artifacts in museums after the Apollo program concluded.

So the Cosmosphere was in the right place at the right time.

Launched as the Kansas Cosmosphere and Discover Center in 1980, the new facility featured permanent exhibit galleries in the Hall of Space Museum, one of the first OMNIMAX theaters in the world and the planetarium that started it all.

In 1997, the facility was further renovated and expanded to its present size, 105,000 square feet, nearly tripling the area devoted to the Hall of Space Museum. Today the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center is one of the most comprehensive space museums in the world and one of the leading educational tourist attractions in the United States.

(Source- Kansas Cosmosphere Space Center-www.cosmo.org)