Ladue School District | |
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Address | |
9703 Conway Road St. Louis , Missouri, 63124United States | |
District information | |
Type | Public |
Grades | PreK–12 [1] |
NCES District ID | 2917820 [1] |
Students and staff | |
Students | 4,325 [1] |
Teachers | 331.5 [1] |
Staff | 176.9 [1] |
Student–teacher ratio | 13.05 [1] |
Other information | |
Website | www |
The Ladue School District is a public school district in Ladue, Missouri, with four elementary, one middle, and one high school, with a special Fifth Grade Center. The district serves 4,180 total students, and employs 280 full-time classroom teachers. [2] The total operating revenue is $49.9 mil. with $50.2 mil. operating expenses. [3] Ladue spends $11,903 per student, and pays an average of $62,697 per teacher ($41,000-$101,542). [2] According to Newsweek (June 19, 2011 issue), Ladue ranks in the top 2% of public schools in the nation. [2] It serves an area encompassing 19 sq. mi. with more than 27,000 residents. [2] It includes all or part of 10 communities including Ladue, Creve Coeur, Crystal Lake Park, Frontenac, Huntleigh, Olivette, Richmond Heights, Town and Country, Unincorporated St. Louis County, and Westwood. [4]
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As the City of Ladue was incorporated in 1936, Spoede Elementary and Ross Elementary were built in the 1930s. The Ladue School District was first organized in 1939. [5]
In U.S. v Ladue School District, a case the U.S. Department of Justice brought in 1978, the federal government charged Ladue with discrimination in hiring of faculty and staff. [6] In 1999, Ladue exited the Voluntary Interdistrict Choice Corporation (VICC), a city-county school desegregation program. [7]
Ladue High School had 1,306 students in the 2013–14 school year. [2] Ladue High School has a 99% graduation rate, of which 92% continue on to higher education in 2-4 year institutions. [8] In standardized testing, Ladue scores above both the state and national average. [2] Newsweek in 2013, ranked the public school 166th best in the nation (up from 188th in 2011–12), and first in Missouri (up from fourth). [8]
Originally called "East Ladue Junior High School," Ladue Middle School teaches children from sixth through eighth grades, total of 976 students in 2013–14. [2] In May 2014 it was named National School of Character. [11]
Built on property bought by the district in 1959 and used as a secondary middle school until 1980, when it was sold to the Westminster Christian Academy. In 2010, the property was re-purchased by the district to construct the Fifth Grade Center. Construction ended in time for its first semester in Fall 2013. [12] In the 2015–2016 school year, there were 342 students enrolled. [13]
All four Ladue Elementary Schools teach children in kindergarten through fourth grades.
Conway Elementary is located in Ladue, MO, at 9900 Conway Road. In 2013–14 Conway Elementary had 339 students. [2] This school has the smallest number of students throughout the district. Conway enrolled its first black students in 1965. [14]
Old Bonhomme School is an elementary school in Olivette, Missouri, with a total of 383 students in 2013–14. [2]
Located in the middle of Ladue near the intersection of Ladue Road and McKnight Road, with a total of 421 students in 2013–14. [2]
Spoede Elementary is located in Creve Coeur, on the west side of Spoede Road, with a total of 430 students in 2013–14. This school's mascot is a turtle. [2]