Thursday, May 9, 2013
First time in a long time if the rain forecast holds off.
Ladue Horton Watkins is planning its annual commencement exercise on Sunday, May 19, 5 p.m. in the football stadium. The last several years, graduation ceremonies have been moved in doors due to the threat of severe weather. This year's class is made up of 323 graduates; 176 females and 147 males. This marks the 61st graduation ceremonies for the high school. Ladue graduated its first class of seniors in 1952. If the ceremonies are moved indoors, each graduating senior will be given six tickets for family and guests. In the past, there has always been ample room in the Nielson Gymnasium. Parking on campus is somewhat limited. Shuttle buses will run between Ladue Middle School and Conway Elementary to the high school. Handicapped parking …
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
That news comes two weeks after Ladue Horton Watkins High was left off the list of top-ranked Missouri schools by U.S. News & World Report.
When U.S. News & World Report released its ranking of the nation's high schools on April 23, Ladue Horton Watkins High School wasn't on the list. The news had some parents wondering and prompted a response from the Ladue School District. The short answer: U.S. News didn't include students who had taken end-of-course algebra I tests in eighth grade. It only counts the numbers from high schoolers. But now, a new ranking is out and it puts Ladue High at the head of the class among Missouri high schools. Newsweek has released its online ranking of the top 2,000 high schools in the country and Ladue ranks 166 in the country, the highest ranking among Missouri schools. The next closest is Clayton at 179. Ladue's ranking is up from 188 last year…
Saturday, April 27, 2013
It all comes down to algebra.
When the annual ranking of high schools by the magazine U.S. News & World Report came out on Tuesday, nine St. Louis-area schools were ranked in Missouri's top 20—but Ladue Horton Watkins High School was not among them. That prompted a response from the Ladue School District from Susan Dielmann, the district's director of communications. The details are below. The major reason, Dielmann's note said, was that the U.S. News survey in part relies on results from high school students on "end of course" tests in algebra I. In the Ladue district, "only 24 percent scored proficient or advanced, effectively eliminating Ladue Horton Watkins High School from the national rankings," she wrote. "However, the vast majority of our students take the …
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
St. Louis' College Hunks Hauling Junk franchise will be on an episode of TLC's Hoarding: Buried Alive.
A group of local college students, including a Ladue Horton Watkins High School graduate will be getting a brief moment in the cable TV spotlight Wednesday. The St. Louis franchise for College Hunks Hauling Junk and College Hunks Moving, based in Creve Coeur, was recruited to participate in the filming of the TLC program Hoarding: Buried Alive. Kim Bussard, a co-owner of the business, told Patch the TLC program has a history of working with other 'College Hunks' franchises in other cities. Her team, which includes Ladue graduate Desmond Moore, was called in to assist with twin sisters in Percy, IL, who were told to clean up their home or face having it condemned. The episode was shot in November and filming finished last month. “It was a …
Thursday, April 11, 2013
The program is designed to test student knowledge about everything from biology to robotics.
The Ladue School District's Science Olympiad program have garnered statewide recognition. Ladue Horton Watkins High School and Ladue Middle School Science Olympiad teams both placed first at a state tournament held over the weekend. Students had to build a robotic arm among a series of events that also tested their knowledge of biology, chemistry and physics. The high school team finished first out of 32 teams and some members walked away from the event with college scholarships from the University of Missouri. LHWHS 2013 Science Olympiad Team Members: Chloe An Enze Chen Collin Christner Emily Chu Jialin Ding Runpeng Liu Yang Liu Allison Loynd Michael Prablek Rasika Sant Max Schindler Kisan Thakkar Haohang Xu Ben Zhang Eric Zhu Toby Zhu
Thursday, February 7, 2013
This year's St. Louis Teen Talent Competition starts Saturday. A total of 155 acts registered this year, which is up from 118 in 2012. See which local teen talent is participating.
The 3rd Annual St. Louis Teen Talent Competition gets under way Feb. 9-10 when 155 high school students take their acts onstage in the preliminary round of a competition sponsored by the Fox Performing Arts Charitable Foundation. "We are pleased to have added more prizes and scholarship awards for our participating students,” stated Mary Strauss, president of Fox Performing Arts Charitable Foundation (FPACF) board of directors in a news release. “We hope all St. Louisans will come out and support our talented teens for the final competition on April 12 at the Fabulous Fox. It’s a great opportunity for the whole family to see great talent on the Fox stage free of charge.” The Fox Performing Arts Charitable Foundation first produced the Teen…
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Sophomores Cate Meyer and Kaitlynn Walker combined for 27 points and several big buckets for the Rams, but it wasn't enough to overcome Notre Dame's red-hot shooting from three-point land.
After losing star center Taylor Robinson at the beginning of December for an issue head coach Cord Dockery described as "personal time", the Ladue High girls basketball team has had to re-work its strategy and philosophy the last few weeks, at what for most teams would be the worst possible time -- right smack dab in the middle of the season. And with no definite idea when to expect the return of Robinson, a 6-foot-3 Temple University recruit who averaged 20 points and nine rebounds a game last season, Ladue has had only a few practices and even fewer games to try to figure out just how to play without her. Last week, it seemed like the Rams might've figured some things out, as they picked up two big wins over John Burroughs and Parkway …
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
The tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary prompted immediate changes in security protocols at Ladue Horton Watkins High School.
The Ladue School district has instituted new security measures at Horton Watkins High School in the wake of the Newtown, CT school shootings which left 26 people dead Friday, including 20 students. Effective Monday, exterior doors at the high school are locked after the first bell, as is the case at other district schools. A letter to parents said the district was planning on making the switch next school year but that events prompted the change. There is "discussion" of increasing parking lot security at the high school. Below is the full text of the message sent out to parents: The physical and mental safety and security of our students is our number one priority in the Ladue School District. Unfortunately, unexplainable, horrible …
The co-founder of Square was praised as "a renaissance man."
Jim McKelvey has come a long way since he graduated from Ladue Horton Watkins High School in 1983. He may be most well-known in the business world as the co-founder of Square, the mobile payments company, but is also the co-founder of the Third Degree Glass Factory, and sits on the board of directors for Lockerdome, social networking website for athletes. A CNN crew for Dr. Sanjay Gupta's program, "The Next List" followed McKelvey recently. The show according to its website, profiles "innovators, visionaries and agents of change. They’re not household names just yet, but they’re movers and shakers in their own worlds. We’re introducing them to you because these individuals are steadily mapping the course to the future with their new ideas…
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Sophomore netminder picked up his first varsity win, with 26 saves last week, in the Rams' 4-3 win over Priory.
Usually we ask upperclassmen their thoughts about college, but we're still interested in your thoughts about furthering your education. Have you thought at all about where you might want to go to college? I am actually already looking for colleges, but for lacrosse, not hockey! There are some colleges in which I'm interested, but at this time I'm not really sure exactly where I will be attending. Will you try to play hockey there (or any other sport)? Are will you be going to college as a regular student? Like I said, although hockey is my passion, I was fortunate enough to start varsity as a freshman in lacrosse. The Ladue lacrosse team was very successful and we were able to make our first ever Division 1 playoff appearance last year. …
CreveCoeurDad
11:59 pm on Wednesday, May 8, 2013
As long as we're being super accurate, neither MICDS or JBS are "high schools". They are more properly called "preparatory schools", which is the term they both use in their descriptions of the schools. So no, they don't belong on the list regardless of whether they are public or private. Just to be accurate. more ›