Metro Academic and Classical High School

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Metro Academic and Classical High School
Location
4015 McPherson Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63108
United States
Information
Type Magnet high school
Established 1972
Opened 1996
School district St. Louis Public Schools
Superintendent Kelvin Adams
Principal Wilfred Doug Moore
Grades 9–12
Campus type Urban
Color(s)          Black and White
Mascot Panthers
Information (314) 534-3894
Website School web site

Metro Academic and Classical High School is a public high school in St. Louis, Missouri that is part of the St. Louis Public Schools.

History

Metro opened in 1972 in a five-room building at 2135 Chouteau Avenue as one of the first magnet schools in the St. Louis Public Schools.[1] In the 1970s, the school moved to the Temple Israel building at 5017 Washington Boulevard, and in 1996, it moved to its current location in a purpose-built school building.[1] In 1997, the school's founder and principal, Betty Wheeler, retired.[2] Her replacement, Pamela Randall, served until 2003, when she entered district administration and later served as superintendent of the St. Louis Public Schools.[3] Randall's replacement, Wilfred Doug Moore, remains the current principal of Metro High School.[4]

One of the features of Metro is that all students are required to perform 300 hours of community service per year.[5]

Metro has been ranked among the top public high schools by Newsweek and has won national and state-level awards for quality. For the 2003–2004 school year, Metro was named a Missouri Gold Star school and a national Blue Ribbon school.[6] It was again named a Missouri Gold Star school and Blue Ribbon school in 2007–2008.[6] In 2012, Newsweek ranked the school as 125 out of the top 1,000 public high schools in the United States.[7]

References

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