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Sumner High School (St. Louis, Missouri)

Sumner High School
Charles Sumner High School.jpg
The Charles H. Sumner High Building
Location
4248 Cottage Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63113
Coordinates 38°39′35″N 90°14′21″W / 38.6597°N 90.2391°W / 38.6597; -90.2391Coordinates: 38°39′35″N 90°14′21″W / 38.6597°N 90.2391°W / 38.6597; -90.2391
Information
Type Public high school
Established 1875
School district St. Louis Public Schools
Principal Trista Harper
Faculty 32.0 (on FTE basis)
Grades 9-12
Enrollment 576 (as of 2012-13)
Student to teacher ratio 18
Color(s) Maroon and white
Nickname Bulldogs
Publication The Collegiate (defunct)
Website
Charles Sumner High School
Location 4248 W. Cottage Ave., St. Louis, Missouri
Area 5.5 acres (2.2 ha)
Built 1908 (1908)
Architectural style Colonial Revival, Other, Georgian Revival
NRHP Reference # 88000469
Added to NRHP April 19, 1988

School website

Sumner High School, also known as Charles H. Sumner High School, is a St. Louis public high school that was the first high school for African-American students west of the Mississippi River. Together with Vashon High School, Sumner was one of only two segregated public high schools in St. Louis City for African-American students. Established in 1875 only after extensive lobbying by some of St. Louis' African-American residents, Sumner moved to its current location in 1908.

As of the 2012–13 school year, the school had an enrollment of 576 students and 32 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 18

Sumner High opened in 1875, the first high school opened for African Americans west of the Mississippi. The school is named after the well-known abolitionist senator Charles H. Sumner. The high school was established on Eleventh Street in St. Louis between Poplar and Spruce Street, in response to demands to provide educational opportunities, following a requirement that school boards support black education with the radical Constitution of 1865 in Missouri. The school was moved in the 1880s because parents complained that their children were walking past the city gallows and morgue on their way to school. The current structure, built in 1908, was designed by architect William B. Ittner. Sumner was the only black public high school in St. Louis City until 1927, with the opening of Vashon High School. Famous instructors include Edward Bouchet. Other later black high schools in St. Louis County were Douglass High School (opened in 1925) and Kinloch High School (1936).


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