Parkway North High School
Appearance
Parkway North High School | |
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Location | |
12860 Fee Fee Road , 63146 United States | |
Coordinates | 38°41′25″N 90°28′6″W / 38.69028°N 90.46833°W |
Information | |
Type | Public |
Motto | "Head North for Excellence!" |
Established | 1971 |
School district | Parkway School District |
Principal | David Jones |
Teaching staff | 80.05 (FTE)[1] |
Enrollment | 1,074 (2022-23)[1] |
Student to teacher ratio | 13.42[1] |
Color(s) | Purple and White |
Athletics conference | Suburban XII (South) |
Mascot | Viking |
Website | parkwayschools |
Parkway North High School is a public
.Demographics
The student body is about 51 percent White, 31 percent Black, and 9 percent Asian.[3]
Building architecture
The school extensively used
HVAC ventilation. The new science department contains traditional classrooms with walls, moving the school away from its original architecture. The school features a main upper gym on the 1st floor and a smaller gym in the basement. Most of the classrooms are located in the 2nd floor.[citation needed
]
Activities
For the 2019–2020 school year, the school offered 27 activities approved by the Missouri State High School Activities Association (MSHSAA): baseball, boys and girls basketball, cheerleading, boys and girls cross country, dance team, football, boys and girls golf, girls lacrosse, music activities, scholar bowl, boys and girls soccer, softball, speech and debate, boys and girls swimming and diving, boys and girls tennis, boys and girls track and field, boys and girls volleyball, water polo, and wrestling.[4]
Notable alumni
- NFLplayer
- Ruth Harker (1981), soccer player for the U.S. women's national team[5]
- Tommie Pierson Jr. (1991), state representative
- Eric Greitens (1992), former governor of Missouri
- Anne Valente (2000), novelist, short story writer
- Metro Boomin, (2012), record producer
- Sug Sutton, (2016), American basketball player
- John Kelly (sportscaster), sports announcer for St. Louis Blues on Fox Sports Midwest
- Living Things, band
- NFLplayer.
- Mary Koboldt (1982), 1988 Olympian, US Field Hockey. 1987 Pan American Field Hockey Team.
References
- ^ a b c "NORTH HIGH". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved April 21, 2024.
- ^ "Townships and Municipalities". data.stlouisco.com. Retrieved 2021-10-13.
- ^ "North High School". Retrieved 2023-08-11.
- ^ "MSHSAA Parkway North High School". Retrieved 16 September 2019.
- ^ Noss, Dan (September 5, 1985). "Ruth Harker: UMSL Riverwomen's World Class Soccer Goalkeeper" (PDF). The Current. No. 519. University of Missouri–St. Louis. pp. 7–8. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 22, 2020. Retrieved July 22, 2020.