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The high school retained the identity of St. Louis Academy on the university campus until 1924 when it moved to its own facilities and incorporated separately under the name of St. Louis University High School. The school's new home, on Oakland Avenue, was a gift of Anna Backer in memory of her late husband and alumnus George Backer.
Located at 3026 Laclede Avenue, the school was built for slightly less than $1.2 million [1] ($21,048,276 today [4]). Vashon was the second high school built for black students in the St. Louis Public Schools, after Sumner High School. [5] [6] Four members of the Vashon glee club created the popular singing group The Four Vagabonds in 1933. [7]
Central Visual and Performing Arts High School (formerly Central High School) is a magnet high school in St. Louis, Missouri, part of the St. Louis Public Schools.. Founded in 1853, Central High School is the oldest public high school west of the Mississippi River, although it has moved several times and merged with a magnet school in 1984.
Color (s) Blue and White. Mascot. Wildcat. Website. www .wcastl .org. Westminster Christian Academy is an independent coeducational private Christian school in Town and Country, Missouri, serving students in grades 7–12. As of 2023, the school has an enrollment of 946 students. [ 1] It was founded in 1976 and moved to its present campus in 2011.
Sumner was the only Black public high school in St. Louis City until the opening of Vashon High School in 1927. [9] Famous instructors included Herman Dreer, [10] Edward Bouchet [11] and Charles H. Turner. Other later Black high schools in St. Louis County were Douglass High School (opened in 1925) and Kinloch High School (1936). [12]
The district began building a fourth high school, three years later, which became Soldan. [2] The school was known during its construction as Union Avenue High School. The school was renamed Soldan High School upon opening, in honor of Frank Louis Soldan, the superintendent of St. Louis schools from 1895 until his death in 1908. [3]
Mike Shannon (1939-2023), affiliated with St. Louis Cardinals for over 50 years, as a player (1962–1970), in front office, and, since 1972, radio and TV announcer; Scott Shannon (born 1947), a radio disk jockey hosting WCBS-FM in New York City. Augustus Shapleigh (1810–1902), president of Shapleigh Hardware Company and early pioneer of St ...