Urbandale police are asking for the public’s help to locate a teenage girl who hasn’t been seen since mid-April.

Police say 16-year-old Taylor Claiser, who is a junior at Urbandale High School, was last seen on April 15^th. Police believe she may be with her boyfriend, 20-year-old Spencer Brookman.

Claiser has ties to Iowa Falls and may have traveled there.

Officials don’t believe Claiser is in any danger but they are worried she hasn’t contacted her parents in over a month.

If you have any information on Claiser’s location you’re asked to contact the Urbandale Police Department at 331-6803.

Urbandale Middle School will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday. It’s an opportunity for the community to see the recently completed remodeling and additions to the school.

From 5 p.m., Dr. Doug Stilwell, Superintendent of Schools and principal, Dan Meyer will lead the proceedings to celebrate the completion of the work that began in 2009.

“We are so fortunate to have this facility for middle level learners in Urbandale.  I cannot begin to thank the community for their support of education and the commitment made to middle level education in our district,” said Meyer in a press release. “With the completion of this project, Urbandale can compete with any district in central Iowa relative to facilities and technology available to our students.”

As a black student in the predominantly white Urbandale Middle School, 14-year-old Donte Johnson says he’s seen his fair share of racial harassment. But never anything like this.

Another student left a KKK membership application on his locker.  Donte’s mother complained to the principal, but says he sort of blew her off.

“He was like ‘they listen to it in the music and it’s on TV and comedians joke about it’ but that doesn’t make it okay,” says Tara Patterson

The superintendent says the student responsible was disciplined, but because of privacy laws the district can’t say what that discipline included.