Blue Hills is a neighborhood in Southeast Kansas City, Missouri bounded North by Swope Parkway, South by 63rd Street, East by Prospect Ave, and West by The Paseo.
Blue Hills was a working class white neighborhood until the 1960s when blockbusting caused many Caucasians to leave the neighborhood.
The public schools that serve Blue Hills are Troost Elementary School, J. J. Pershing Elementary, Frances Willard Elementary, Southeast and Paseo High Schools.
From its early years until the 1960s nearly all of the residents of Blue Hills were white and most were working class, making it a working white neighborhood In the early 1960s, the racial composition of the neighborhood changed due to blockbusting, and in the 1970s more than 95% of Blue Hills residents were African-American.
In 2021, it has mostly recovered, albeit with a few boarded houses left, due to young people moving in and fixing the old, boarded homes.