Type Magnet high school Opened 1996 Principal Wilfred Doug Moore Color Black and White | Established 1972 Superintendent Kelvin Adams Phone +1 314-534-3894 Founded 1972 Lowest grade Ninth grade | |
Address 4015 McPherson Ave, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA Mascot Metro Academic and Classical High School Panther Similar Meramec Elementary School, St Louis University High Sch, Confluence Academy, Flynn Park Elementary School, Ralph M Captain Elementa | ||
Metro academic and classical high school
Metro Academic and Classical High School is a public high school in St. Louis, Missouri that is part of the St. Louis Public Schools.
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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. 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. In 1997, the school's founder and principal, Betty Wheeler, retired. Her replacement, Pamela Randall, served until 2003, when she entered district administration and later served as superintendent of the St. Louis Public Schools. Randall's replacement, Wilfred Doug Moore, has been principal from 2003-2017.
All Metro students are required to perform 300 hours of community service prior to graduation.
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. It was again named a Missouri Gold Star school and Blue Ribbon school in 2007–2008. In 2012, Newsweek ranked the school as 125 out of the top 1,000 public high schools in the United States.