The Best School Districts in Metro St. Louis

Article by Richard Green for stlouis.about.com

"The Greater St. Louis area offers a wide range of public school options in Missouri and Illinois. Although there are many excellent school systems in the metro area, there are several which rank in the top ten percent of all schools in the nation. The school systems which we have chosen as the best in St. Louis rank higher than 80% of all schools in the country using the following criteria:

Performance on college scholarship exams
Property values
Per capita income
The education level of adults residing in the area
The percentages were developed by arranging the average test scores (ACT or SAT), average property values, average income, and average educational level of adults from all school systems in the country from lowest to highest. The following school districts ranked higher than 81%-99% of some 13,000 school districts across the country and are the top school districts out of 149 in the St. Louis area:

Clayton - Clayton, MO 63105
Kirkwood R-VIII - Kirkwood, MO 63122
Ladue - St. Louis, MO 63124
Lindbergh R-VIII - St. Louis, MO 63126
Parkway C-2 - Chesterfield, MO 63017
Rockwood R-VI - Eureka, MO 63025
Webster Groves - Webster Groves, MO 63119

The Missouri School Boards' Association has named the Webster Groves School District's Board of Education "Missouri's Outstanding Board of Education for 2003". A committee of school board members from districts throughout the state of Missouri selected the Webster Groves School District board for this honor. To be considered, a board must make contributions in the areas of district accreditation, community engagement, student achievement, achievement of district goals and local board initiatives."

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