Vashon High School is a public high school located in St. Louis, Missouri that is part of the St. Louis Public Schools. When it opened in 1927, it was the second high school for black students in St. Louis. Since 1934, the school has won 14 state basketball championships – eight as a member of the Missouri State High School Activities Association and six as a member of the Missouri Negro Interscholastic Athletic Association.HistoryDesigned by Rockwell M. Milligan, the school opened on September 11, 1927, and it was named in honor of two African-American educators: George Boyer Vashon, the first black graduate of Oberlin College, and his son, John Boyer Vashon. Located at 3026 Laclede Avenue, construction costs were slightly less than $1.2 million. Vashon was the second high school built for black students in the St. Louis Public Schools, after Sumner High School.While at the Laclede Avenue location, Vashon's boys basketball program won six state titles as part of the Missouri Negro Interscholastic Athletic Association, in 1935, 1936, 1944, 1947, 1948, and 1949. Vashon was barred from joining the Missouri State High School Activities Association until 1949, and between 1949 and 1954, it was prohibited from participating in both MNIAA tournaments and MSHSAA state tournaments.In June 1963, the school relocated to the Hadley Vocational-Technical High School building at 3405 Bell Avenue, and the original building became part of Harris–Stowe State University. The Bell Avenue building had been constructed in the early 1930s with large shop classrooms that were subsequently divided into classrooms and offices with partition walls, causing noise problems throughout the school. Its architectural design also strongly resembled a factory, and according to a local newspaper report, "the main school building, gym and auditorium make one think the people inside might be manufacturing cars or widgets." The move was accompanied by protests in the local community and a student march against the transfer.
Enrollment Data: • Pre-K: 2,166 • K-12: 24,871 • Average Daily Attendance: 94% Student Data: • Male: 51% • Female: 49% • African American: 83% • Caucasian: 11% • Hispanic: 3% • Asian: 3% • ESOL: 7% • Students in Transition: 14% • Special Education: 12% • Approved for free/reduced lunch: 89% Employee Data: • Total Employees: 4,413 • Teachers: 1,909
Carr Lane Visual and Performing Arts Middle School is an institution seeking to combine aesthetic experiences with traditional education. The core of the program presents a total artistic educational experience including vocal music, piano, drama, mass media, dance, band, strings, harp and visual art. The challenging academic program includes language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, reading, communication arts, industrial technology, health, physical education and AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination). The school is a home to a number of special education services including educable mentally handicapped, learning disabled, behavior disordered, speech and/or language impaired, physically handicapped, blind and other health impaired in either a self-contained or resource setting. The school’s academic program is greatly enhanced by its magnet focus on the arts. The success of the Carr Lane Visual and Performing Arts program is the incorporation of hands-on classroom instruction with unique opportunities for exposure to the arts.
Central Visual and Performing Arts High School is a magnet high school in St. Louis, Missouri, part of the St. Louis Public Schools. Founded in 1853, Central 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. Central VPA specializes in the arts, with students taking courses in three art majors, including visual art, musical art, and performing art, with focuses on ceramics, drawing and painting, photography, instrumental music, vocal music, dance, and theater.HistoryEstablishment and early moves: 1853–1893In late 1852, the Board of Education of the St. Louis Public Schools ordered the organization and opening of a high school to serve the city population. The Board located the school within Benton School, a primary school then located on 6th Street between St. Charles and Locust streets, and on February 7, 1853, 70 students were admitted after an entrance examination. Its first principal was Jeremiah D. Low. Soon after its opening, the Board ordered construction on a dedicated building for the high school, then known simply as St. Louis High School.Designed by William Rumbold, the new building was built in 1855 at a cost of $50,000 at the corner of Olive and 15th streets. The building had three full stories and a basement, nine classrooms, a 700-seat auditorium, and 16 smaller rooms used as libraries and wardrobes. It initially was built with a capacity of slightly less than 500 students. By 1859, course requirements for entrance had been developed, and two courses of study (general or classical) were available to students.
CORE VALUES: 1. Empowerment: Our community fosters a sense of forward, positive decision making, helping our students develop into leaders through making real choices based in their voices. By empowering them to design the world they want to live in, we assist them on their journey towards future success in college and careers. Jefferson Eagles move forward. CREATE 2. Responsiveness: Our community purposefully infuses expanded access points to learning in recognition of the fact that students of color have been miseducated and unfairly deprived of their right to a liberating education. By building both access and pathways to educational opportunities, we help build our students towards the best we can be. Jefferson Eagles pay attention. CONSIDER 3. Adaptability: Our community encourages students to take risks, learn from failure (“fail forward”), and design a better future using the tools they develop in our learning community. By helping all learners focus both inward and outward, we can transform ourselves and the systems that shape and define our experiences. Jefferson Eagles stay focused/don’t give up. GROW 4. Accountability: Our community takes responsibility for our behavior, both actively and passively. By holding each other accountable and repairing harm we may have caused, we recognize that each of us is more than the worst thing we have ever done. Jefferson Eagles fix their mistakes. ADJUST 5. Interconnectedness: Our community cultivates a positive community founded on trust, empathy, and mutual respect. By creating and implementing non-punitive but strong institutional supports, we ensure that individuals and the connections between them are strengthened as an outcome. Jefferson Eagles work with each other. COOPERATE
Dunbar Elementary School opened in 1912 as Glasgow School. It is Located in the Jeff Vander Lou Neighborhood, across the street from Vashon High School. Our classes range from Pre-Kindergarten to sixth grade, with an enrollment of 250 students. Principal: Jacara Sproaps Affiliations: St. Louis Community Empowerment Foundation Wells Fargo Advisors Big Brothers Big Sisters Mentor St. Louis
The St. Louis Public Library is a municipal public library system in the city of St. Louis, Missouri. It operates sixteen locations, including the main Central Library location. Although similarly named, the St. Louis Public Library is unrelated to the St. Louis County Library system.HistoryIn 1865, Ira Divoll, the superintendent of the St. Louis Public School system, created a subscription library in the public school library that would later evolve into the St. Louis Public Library. Divoll believed that library should work in tandem with the public education system and offer citizens an opportunity for self-improvement and culture.By 1869, Divoll’s the subscription library moved to the Board of Education building. The library consisted of 4 staff members who offered reference services 12 hours a day. The library also encouraged children visit the library and had no age restrictions like most libraries of the day.Due to rapid growth of the library collection, which grew from 1500 volumes in 1865, to 90,000 volumes by 1893, the library required more space. In 1893, the library moved into a new space on the top floors of the new Board of Education building. Also in 1893, the citizens of St. Louis voted to move the administration of the Library to an independent board, supported by a property tax. This vote enabled to library to offer a library free of subscription fees and be open to all St. Louis residents.The Library occupied the board of education building from 1893 until 1909, as construction on Central Library was being completed. This buildings size wasn’t large enough to accommodate the library's growing collection. It was during this time, the library began its role as a lending library, allowing the public to ‘check out’ and take books home.
The St. Louis Public Library is a municipal public library system in the city of St. Louis, Missouri. It operates sixteen locations, including the main Central Library location. Although similarly named, the St. Louis Public Library is unrelated to the St. Louis County Library system.HistoryIn 1865, Ira Divoll, the superintendent of the St. Louis Public School system, created a subscription library in the public school library that would later evolve into the St. Louis Public Library. Divoll believed that library should work in tandem with the public education system and offer citizens an opportunity for self-improvement and culture.By 1869, Divoll’s the subscription library moved to the Board of Education building. The library consisted of 4 staff members who offered reference services 12 hours a day. The library also encouraged children visit the library and had no age restrictions like most libraries of the day.Due to rapid growth of the library collection, which grew from 1500 volumes in 1865, to 90,000 volumes by 1893, the library required more space. In 1893, the library moved into a new space on the top floors of the new Board of Education building. Also in 1893, the citizens of St. Louis voted to move the administration of the Library to an independent board, supported by a property tax. This vote enabled to library to offer a library free of subscription fees and be open to all St. Louis residents.The Library occupied the board of education building from 1893 until 1909, as construction on Central Library was being completed. This buildings size wasn’t large enough to accommodate the library's growing collection. It was during this time, the library began its role as a lending library, allowing the public to ‘check out’ and take books home.
The Sun & The Soil is a five-person permaculture design and education firm based in Old North St. Louis. We offer residential and commercial design services as well as a variety of permaculture workshops. Our team includes Jorj Arteaga, Ben Bowman, Chris Olliges, Molly Pocket, & Ben Schartman.
St. Stanislaus Kostka Church is an independent Catholic church building located in the city of St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Formerly a parish belonging to the Catholic Church, it was established in 1880 to serve the Polish community in the Archdiocese of St. Louis. It is considered to be the best example of the opulent Polish Cathedral style of architecture west of the Mississippi River.The church is notable for a highly publicized dispute over control of the parish and its assets between the church's lay board of directors and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis. In December 2005, Archbishop Raymond Leo Burke declared the parish's board members and its priest, Marek Bozek, excommunicated and announced his intention to disband the parish with the likelihood that the premises would be sold. The parish responded by holding a Christmas Eve Mass attended by 1,500-2,000 people. The church and the Archdiocese settled their legal dispute in 2013.The parish continues to be maintained and managed by its parishioners as a not-for-profit corporation, calling itself "Catholic", but unaffiliated with the Catholic Church.
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