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The small historically French settlements that became part of the United States in 1803 had limited schooling. Schools were established in several Missouri towns; by 1821, they existed in the towns of St. Louis, St. Charles, Ste. Genevieve, Florissant, Cape Girardeau, Franklin, Potosi, Jackson, and Herculaneum, and in rural areas in both Cooper and Howard counties.
Administration of primary and secondary public schools in the state is conducted by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. [2] Education is compulsory from ages seven to seventeen in Missouri, commonly but not exclusively divided into three tiers: elementary school, middle school or junior high school, and high school.
Missouri Kansas City Hospital College of Medicine Kansas City 1882 1883 1888 [2] Missouri Kansas City Medical College Kansas City 1869 1870 1905 1869 College of Physicians and Surgeons of Kansas City, 1880 Kansas City Medical College [2] Missouri Marion-Sims College of Medicine St. Louis 1890 1891 1903
History of Education Journal (1954): 105-117. He was Ohio's 'ex officio' State Superintendent of Common Schools from 1845 to 1850. online; Theobald, Paul. Call School: Rural Education in the Midwest to 1918 (1995); White, E. E. ,and T. W. Harvey, eds. A History of Education in the State of Ohio: A Centennial Volume (Columbus, 1876) online
[10] [7] It was the first known school for blacks in Missouri. [4] Called the Candle Tallow School, it charged those who could pay one dollar per pupil in tuition. [1] [10] Classes were held secretly in the basement of the church. [11] In 1825, the city had passed an ordinance that banned the education of free blacks.
The city played a small role in the American Revolutionary War and became part of the U.S. through the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. With its connection through the Ohio River to the east, the Mississippi to the south and north, and the Missouri to the west, St. Louis was ideally located to become the main base of interregional trade.
Generally public schooling in rural areas did not extend beyond the elementary grades for either whites or blacks. This was known as "eighth grade school" [37] After 1900, some cities began to establish high schools, primarily for middle class whites. In the 1930s roughly one fourth of the US population still lived and worked on farms and few ...
This is an alphabetical list of school districts in Missouri, sorted first by the state supervisors of instruction regions, the counties each region serves, and then alphabetically. Many districts have the letters "C" or "R" in their name, followed by a numeral.