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Ladue Horton Watkins High School

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Established
  
1952

Teaching staff
  
86.74 (FTE)

Student to teacher ratio
  
14.65

District
  
Ladue School District

Number of students
  
1,271 (2012–2013)

Principal
  
Brad Griffith

Enrollment
  
1271 (2012-2013)

Phone
  
+1 314-993-6447

Average ACT scores
  
26.4

Type
  
Comprehensive public high school

Address
  
1201 Warson Rd, St. Louis, MO 63124, USA

Similar
  
Kirkwood High School, Ladue School District, John Burroughs School, Webster Groves High Sch, Mary Institute And St Lo

Ladue Horton Watkins High School is a public high school in Ladue, Missouri, that is part of the Ladue School District. Its namesake, Horton Watkins, was vice president of the International Shoe Company and died in 1949. The family of Horton Watkins donated the 28-acre (110,000 m2) tract of land on South Warson Road to the school for the high school site as a memorial.

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The high school has a 97% graduation rate, of which 92% continue on to higher education in 2–4-year institutions.

Ladue HS was listed for 2013 as the 166th-best public high school in America and best in the state based by Newsweek. In the 2014 list it was unranked.

Activities

For the 2011–12 school year, the school offered 26 activities approved by the Missouri State High School Activities Association (MSHSAA): baseball, boys and girls basketball, cheerleading, boys and girls cross country, dance team, field hockey, football, boys golf, girls lacrosse, orchestra, band and vocal music, scholar bowl, boys and girls soccer, girls softball, speech and debate, boys' and girls' swimming and diving, boys' and girls' tennis, boys and girls track and field, girls volleyball, water polo, and wrestling. In addition to its MSHSAA activities, the school offers students an opportunity to participate in a variety of other school-sponsored clubs.

The Ladue Rams have won several state championships:

  • Scholar bowl: 2006, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013
  • Boys' golf: 1960, 1970
  • Boys' swimming and diving: 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963
  • Girls swimming and diving: 1976
  • Boys tennis: 1962, 1985, 1995
  • Girls tennis: 1978, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 2009
  • Boys cross country: 2010
  • Boys track and field: 2003, 2010
  • Girls track and field: 2005, 2009
  • Boys lacrosse: 2010
  • Boys Ice hockey: 1994,2012
  • Water Polo: 1973

    • In 2013 Ladue's Scholar Bowl team won the National Scholastics Championship.

    Demographics

    The demographic breakdown of the 1,271 students enrolled for the 2012–2013 school year was:

  • American Indian/Alaskan Native - 0.3%
  • Asian/Pacific islander - 10.1%
  • Black - 17.6%
  • Hispanic - 4.5%
  • White - 63.6%
  • Multiracial - 3.9%
  • Male - 48.0%
  • Female - 52.0%

    • In addition, 12.2% of the students were eligible for free or reduced lunch.

    Notable alumni

  • John H. "Todd" Armstrong '56 - actor, star of Jason and the Argonauts
  • Andy Russell '59 - football player
  • Paul William Bucha - '61 - Medal of Honor recipient, US Army, Captain, Vietnam
  • Elissa L. Newport '65 - scientist
  • Frances Ginsberg '73 - opera soprano
  • Kevin Spirtas, '80 - actor
  • Jim McKelvey '83 - co-founder of Square, Inc.
  • Jeff Smith '92 - politician
  • Duane Hawthorne '94 - football player
  • Dorothea Lasky '96 - poet
  • Joel Meyers '72 - sportscaster
  • Eric Nenninger '97 - actor
  • Courtney Van Buren '98 - football player
  • Justin Willman '98 - actor, magician and entertainer
  • Becky Sauerbrunn '03 - soccer player, U.S. Women's National Team
  • Ben C. Solomon '06 - Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
  • Jehu Chesson '12 - football player for the Michigan Wolverines
  • Willy Holtzman '69 - Peabody Award winner Humanitas Award winning playwright

    • References

    Ladue Horton Watkins High School Wikipedia
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