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East Saint Louis Senior High School is the only high school located in East St. Louis, Illinois. The school serves about 1,438 students in grades 9 to 12 in the East Saint Louis Public Schools district. [2] It was featured in the Jonathan Kozol book Savage Inequalities.
This is a list of high schools in Greater St. Louis. It includes public and private schools and is arranged by state, county and then by school district for public schools, or by affiliation for private schools.
The non-high school district 202, which included the elementary school districts 182 and 184, was dissolved in July 1956. The area from this district was divided between the East St. Louis school district and the Cahokia Unit School District 187, and therefore the East St. Louis district took students of all grade levels from the former 202 district.
East St. Louis. East St. Louis Senior High School received a comprehensive designation in this year’s Illinois Report Card, with an 89% chronic absenteeism rate, a 68% graduation rate, a 2% ...
The Lincoln Tigers and Tigerettes won 29 state championships in sports, 14 of them in girls' track and field within a 17-year period; [2] the girls' track and field coach, Nino Fennoy, became the coach at East St. Louis Senior High School after consolidation, as did the boys' basketball coach, Bennie Lewis Sr., whose program dominated the state in the 1980s.
The St. Louis Public Schools also opened the first public high school for black students west of the Mississippi, Sumner High School, in 1875. St. Louis Public Schools opened the first public kindergarten in North America in 1873 under the direction of William Torrey Harris, then Superintendent of Schools, and Susan Blow, who had studied the ...
Education in Greater St. Louis. Brookings Hall, an icon of Washington University in St. Louis. Education in Greater St. Louis is provided by 132 public school districts, independent private schools, parochial schools, and several public library systems. Greater St. Louis also is home to more than thirty colleges and universities.
The city is served by the East St. Louis School District 189. As of 2017, the district operates an early childhood learning center, 5 elementary schools, 2 middle schools, and one high school, East St. Louis High School. [35] Until 1998, East St. Louis Lincoln High School also served portions of the city.