Metro Academic and Classical High School
Metro Academic and Classical High School | |
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4015 McPherson Avenue St. Louis, MO 63108 United States |
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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]
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