Huff: 60 percent of Joplin students displaced after tornado

Joplin R-8 Superintendent C. J. Huff says 60 percent of the school district's students have been displaced by Sunday's tornado:

About 60 percent of the district’s 7,747 students have been displaced by the storm, according to Superintendent C.J. Huff. The district had no word of student or staff deaths, Huff said, but he added that the welfare of only a fraction of students had been determined. He also said the district was checking into the possibility that some staff members may have been working off-hours at the high school or other district buildings.


“It was the scariest thing I’ve ever been around,” Huff said of the storm.