Normandy High School is a public high school located in Wellston, St. Louis County, Missouri that is part of the Normandy School District.HistoryThe following information was provided by Wayne Brasler, Normandy School District historian who has written numerous research papers on the District and who produces and publishes the Normandy High School Alumni newspaper. Mr. Brasler has an extensive collection of Normandy School District histories, publications and Normandy High School newspapers and yearbooks and all the information here comes from those documents. Upon his death, the entire collection will go to the Missouri Historical Society. Normandy started a high school at Lincoln Elementary School in Pagedale early its history but it did not last beyond a year. Then in 1907 a high school was started in the former Washington Elementary School on St. Charles Rock Road but only one class graduated when the school closed in 1911. In 1923, the district again opened a school, this time on property purchased from the Eden Theological Seminary. For its first year, the high school shared the ornate four-story main building with Eden students. Plans by William B. Ittner for a California-style collegiate campus with a central quadrangle were implemented shortly after. The school opened as a combined junior high school and senior high school, with six levels from 7th through 12th grades. Plans also called for adding the first two years of college. This plan was realized in a way forty years later with the opening of the Normandy Residence Center, which became the University of Missouri-St. Louis. A vocational building and gymnasium, also designed by Ittner, were added in 1929. The vocational building remains as West Hall. The gymnasium, with curved, amphitheater-style seating, was renowned in the area for its architecture.
St. Ann Catholic Church & School is a diverse Christian community devoted to providing a comprehensive curriculum and a learning environment that encourages students to reach their full potential. St. Ann School promotes the mission of the Catholic Church in a loving family atmosphere.
In 1930, the St. Louis Province of the Sisters of Divine Providence was established, with Mother M. Rosalia Weaver as Provincial. The congregation was formally welcomed into the Archdiocese of St. Louis by Archbishop John J. Glennon, who shared the Sisters' objective of establishing a boarding school for boys. In 1932, the community purchased an estate in Normandy, Missouri that would become Mount Providence, and serve as both the provincial Motherhouse and the boarding school for boys in kindergarten through grade 8. Mount Providence School for Boys opened in January, 1933. It would quickly grow to a complex of three dormitories, nine-8classrooms, three cafeterias, a library, recreation area, craft room, band room, music room, guest rooms and reception rooms. More importantly, it would educate young boys-and beginning in 1988, girls as well-with a maximum enrollment of more than 300 students. At different points in its history Mount Providence would also be the home of an eldercare facility, a day care, and Catholic Chariies' Villa Maria, a shelter for pregnant women and their children. It was determined in the early 1990s that the St. Louis Province could no longer afford to maintain Mount Providence. The property was sold to the University of Missouri-St. Louis in 1995, and Mount Providence School closed the following year. The Sisters moved out of the Motherhouse in 1997. In February 2001, the buildings were imploded to make way for the redirecion of a dangerous stretch of Interstate 70.