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The Webster Groves School District is a public school district in and around Webster Groves, Missouri, west of St. Louis.. The current superintendent is Dr. John Simpson, and the district's central office is located at 400 E. Lockwood Ave, Webster Groves, MO 63119.
Webster Groves High School was established in 1889 as a ninth grade course. The school originally occupied the first floor of the white frame Bristol School building, then known as Webster School, or sometimes the Gray Avenue School; [4] the elementary school took up the second floor.
From frontier Kentucky into the mid- and southwest United States, the Sisters continued their involvement in Catholic education. In 1924, Nerinx Hall began educating young women in the Lockwood family home in Webster Groves, Missouri, graduating its first class in May 1925. Over the years the school has grown in enrollment and physical facilities.
In the wake of the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, Webster Groves High School was again profiled, this time in Time, which described Webster Groves as a "pretty town of old elms and deep porches" and a "mix of $90,000 cottages and $750,000 homes, young marrieds and old-line families and transient middle managers assigned to a stint in the ...
The school was formed when the Webster Groves School District decided to stop paying tuition for students to attend the all-black Sumner High School, founded in 1875, which was miles away in St. Louis. So an elementary school, Douglass Elementary, dating from 1866, was expanded into a high school in the 1920s.
The campus was purchased by Normandy High School in 1923. In 1924, the seminary moved to its current campus in Webster Groves. The school was augmented in 1934 by a merger with the Central Theological Seminary, an institution of the Reformed Church in the United States in Dayton, Ohio, and the Oakwood Institute of Cincinnati, Ohio.
It was designed by Ernest J. Friton. In July 1948, voters opted to merge the district with Webster Groves School District. The Webster Groves School Board accepted the merge in September. Enrollment in Rock Hill School District was 435 at the time. Rock Hill superintendent T. Dean Adams was named as principal of Rock Hill's two schools. [60]
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