We were considering moving to KC to be closer to family and I was a bit overwhelmed looking for gifted programs there. The options are complicated by the fact that you have the state line right there so the most important thing to figure out is which state you'd rather be in. The Shawnee Mission School District on the Kansas side seems very large and has a lot of potential options but funding seems to have been gutted in recent years and I'd be anxious about how they treat gifted students who require "extra." The Center district seemed to have an interesting gifted program but for a limited number of years. The city schools have some intriguing options (bilingual schools, for example) but no real gifted programs. The North Kansas City schools seemed the most promising to me but also the furthest from our potential job options, so would have been an issue for us.
We wound up moving elsewhere, so I have no real advice! I just wanted to point out the school districts that piqued my interest when I was considering this same possibility.
