One example: This letter from Catholic school parent Lawrence Barker, after he read about city students’ very poor rate of access to good public schools.
I’ve edited it for brevity.
Several weeks ago I met Kelvin Adams, the new St. Louis Public…
Marian Middle School, a private Catholic school for girls from low-income families, has added a fifth grade.
The school’s first class of 15 fifth graders will start tomorrow.
Marian, at 4130 Wyoming Street in St. Louis City, is now full, with 20…
Gateway Academy, a private Catholic school in Chesterfield for preschoolers through twelfth grade, will close its high school in the fall.
Administrators met with parents Wednesday night to tell them the news. They told parents there weren’t enough students to sustain the…
Incarnate Word Academy, an all-girls Catholic high school in north St. Louis County, has promoted its principal, Randy Berzon-Mikolas, to the newly-created president position, and is searching for a principal.
The school’s press release said this:
The Board of Trustees has been…
Kevin Lee, president of the Jesuit Loyola Academy, just got his school’s standardized test scores. He said his staff is still processing overall results, but had a couple of success stories to share.
“It is amazing what young men can accomplish,”…
Alas, we may be witnessing a small loss of innocence at St. Louis University High these days.
The U High, as with many private schools, was the kind of place where students might lock their lockers, and they might not. Heck, they…
Six parish schools near O’Fallon, Mo., locked down this morning as police search for a man wanted in connection with the murder of a 12-year-old Madison, Ill., boy.
According to a statement released just before 8 a.m. from Al Winklemann, director…
