JOPLIN — Joplin school officials estimate that about 54 percent of the district's 7,700 students lived in the path of the May 22 tornado that damaged roughly 8,000 homes and more than 500 businesses.
Joplin-area school districts attempt to measure post-tornado enrollment
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 | 1:32 p.m. CDT;
updated 7:36 p.m. CDT, Wednesday, June 29, 2011
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