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By the 20th century, the population in St. Louis was 575,238. Public school enrollment was 62,797, employing 1,665 teachers in ninety schools. Another St. Louis first was the Educational Museum, which featured articles purchased from the 1904 World's Fair Palace of Education.
The oldest public library system in the area, the St. Louis Public Library, serves the city of St. Louis and maintains a collection of 4.7 million items, and it operates 14 branches and a central library building. [7] St. Louis County Library operates 20 branches and has a collection of 2.6
The St. Louis Public Schools (SLPS) is the only school district in St. Louis. [1] It operates more than 75 schools, including several magnet schools.SLPS operates under provisional accreditation from the state of Missouri and is under the governance of a state-appointed school board called the Special Administrative Board, although a local board continues to exist without legal authority over ...
The population of the city had increased to more than 575,000, by the end of the 1890s. The St. Louis Public Schools had operated only one high school since 1855. The school district built two new high schools in 1904, in order to meet the need for greater space for high school students.
St. Louis Public Schools (SLPS), the city's school district, saw by far the biggest losses: $167.9 million over six years, nearly 65 percent of the countywide total.
Roosevelt High School, 3230 Hartford Street, 12 February 1937. To relieve overcrowding at McKinley High School and Cleveland High School, the city's south side high schools for whites, the St. Louis Public Schools ordered the acquisition of property to construct a "New Southside High School" in 1922.
St. Louis' school district is offering to pay some families to drive their kids to school as part of an effort to offset a shortage of bus drivers. “We are excited to announce a new set of ...
The religious demographics of the St. Louis metro area are as follows: [22] ... Education in Greater St. Louis is provided by 132 public school districts, ...