Missouri School for the Deaf (MSD) is a school that serves deaf and hard-of-hearing students from ages 5–21 years old.
[3] Elementary and middle school students are in cottages built in 1997; they are Gannon Cottage, named after Jack R. Gannon; Redden Cottage, after Laura Redden Searing (Howard Glyndon); and Reid Cottage, after teacher William Cooper Reid.
[4] High school students are in Kerr Hall, named after MSD founder William Dabney Kerr; and Tate Hall, named after MSD superintendent James Nolley Tate.
They have separate sides for female and male students.
[5] As of 1997[update] MSD's sports teams usually play other schools categorized as 1A, and it plays against other schools for the deaf in the Great Plains tournament.