Andover, Kansas
21st century
### 21st century

In 2000, Andover passed a bond issue allowing the school system to double in size. Andover grew to two high schools, two middle schools, and 4 elementary schools. Andover High School and Andover Middle School both use the Trojans as their mascot, sporting blue and white for their colors. Andover Central High School and Andover Central Middle School are the newer of the schools, established in 2001\. Their mascots are the Jaguars and school colors are black and gold. Both schools have outstanding athletic, academic, music, drama, and art programs. Both programs are also crosstown rivals of each other. 

Six schools; Cottonwood, Meadowlark, Robert Martin, Wheatland, Prairie Creek, and Sunflower have been the Elementary buildings serving the community. In 2005, Andover residents approved in bond election to build three additional elementary schools. The first of which, Robert Martin Elementary, which was named after Robert M. Martin, moved from a shared building with Meadowlark into a new location in the fall of 2007\. The remaining two new buildings opened in the fall of 2008 as Wheatland Elementary and Prairie Creek Elementary.

In 2005, Andover passed a sales tax increase to contribute to the building of a new Andover Public Library. The new Library was constructed at Andover's Central Park, ground breaking was in late summer 2007\.

#### 2022 tornado

[thumb\|right\|A home destroyed by the 2022 tornado.](/wiki/File:Andover%2C_Kansas_EF3_damage_April_2022.jpg "Andover, Kansas EF3 damage April 2022.jpg")

On the evening of April 29, 2022, an [EF3](/wiki/Enhanced_Fujita_scale "Enhanced Fujita scale") tornado caused major damage to a [YMCA](/wiki/YMCA "YMCA") branch in Andover, tossed vehicles, destroyed numerous buildings. Three people sustained minor injuries, while three indirect injuries also occurred during the cleanup after the storm. Prairie Creek Elementary School of [Andover USD 385](/wiki/Andover_USD_385 "Andover USD 385") was damaged and would not open again until the following school year began in August 2022\.

The tornado was on the ground for 21 minutes, from 8:10 p.m. until 8:31 p.m., and traveled .[2022 Tornado Damage Map; The Wichita Eagle.](https://web.archive.org/web/20220501030043/https://www.kansas.com/latest-news/gwggk7/picture260942957/alternates/LANDSCAPE_1140/andover.tornado.map.jpg) It started in eastern [Sedgwick County](/wiki/Sedgwick_County%2C_Kansas "Sedgwick County, Kansas"), then traveled northeast into [Butler County](/wiki/Butler_County%2C_Kansas "Butler County, Kansas") through the eastern part of Andover, then continued northeast to about SW 60th Street. It damaged 21 residences in Sedgwick County and more than 1,000 buildings in Butler County.


What happened to Prairie Creek Elementary School in 2022?