Rosati-Kain High School
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4389 Lindell Boulevard St. Louis, Missouri, (none) 63108 United States |
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| Coordinates | 38°38′31″N 90°15′14″W / 38.6420°N 90.2538°WCoordinates: 38°38′31″N 90°15′14″W / 38.6420°N 90.2538°W |
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| Type | Private, All-Girls |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Roman Catholic |
| Established | 1911 by SSND & SSJ sisters |
| School district | Archdiocese of Saint Louis |
| President | Sr. Joan Andert |
| Principal | Elizabeth Goodwin |
| Staff | 47 |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 410 (2008) |
| Color(s) | Purple and Gold |
| Athletics conference | AAA (Archdiocesan Athletic Association) |
| Sports | field hockey, softball, tennis, cross country, track, soccer, basketball, dance, cheerleading, volleyball, and swim |
| Mascot | Kougar |
| Team name | Kougar |
| Accreditation | North Central Association of Colleges and Schools |
| Tuition | $11,650 |
| Athletic Director | Mel Wilson |
| Website | http://www.rosati-kain.org |
Rosati-Kain High School is an all-girls Catholic high school in St. Louis, Missouri. Rosati-Kain is accredited as a college preparatory school by the North Central Association, the Missouri Department of Education, and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Louis.
Rosati-Kain High school is the first and remains to be the oldest Archdiocesan high school in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis. In 1911, the School Sisters of Notre Dame and the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet joined their two centers to start Rosati-Kain High School. The school began educating young women. The school is named for Joseph Rosati, the first bishop of St. Louis Diocese, and John Joseph Kain, the second archbishop of the St. Louis Archdiocese.
Between the years of 1911-1920, the nuns served as faculty taught without being paid. They supported the operational expenses of the school by selling needlework and teaching music. In 1919, the school had outgrown its building at the St. Vincent Seminary site at Lucas and Grand Avenues. The school moved to the Hayes Mansion on Newstead at the corner of Lindell. In 1921, the Hayes Mansion was moved to make room to build a new larger structure designed by architect Henry P. Hess. This structure was completed in 1922 and remains the main building for R-K. In 1941, the gymnasium, cafeteria, and music room were added to the property with funding raised by the Alumnae Association.
By the mid-1940s, over 1,000 students attended Rosati-Kain in two different shifts, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Rosati-Kain became the first high school in the St. Louis area to integrate, enrolling five African-American students in 1946. Rosati-Kain has changed greatly over the past 100 years, morphing from a typical all-female finishing school to become a college preparatory high school for girls.
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