The Barstow School

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The Barstow School
Understanding through knowledge
Established	1884 (girls only), 1967 (coeducational)
School type	Private
Religious affiliation	Nonsectarian
Head of School	Art Atkison
Location	Kansas City, MO, USA
Campus	Suburban
Enrollment	Approx. 650
Faculty	69 total
Student:teacher ratio	9.5:1
Average SAT scores (2005)	Verbal = 593; Math = 609
Average ACT scores (2005)	Composite = 27
Athletics	13 interscholastic, numerous club
Color(s)	Green & White
Mascot	Knight
Conference	N/A
Homepage	http://www.barstowschool.org/

The Barstow School (commonly known simply as "Barstow"), founded in 1884^[1] by Miss Mary Louise Barstow, is a nonsectarian, coeducational, private preparatory school located on State Line Road in southern Kansas City, Missouri, USA.

The Barstow School enrolls approximately 650 students in preschool through 12th grade. The school has a strong academic tradition and usually matriculates all of its graduates to four-year colleges.

In the 2006-2007 school year the tuition ranged from $12,500 for first graders to $14,675 for grades 9-12.

1 History
2 Accreditation and memberships
3 Notable alumni
4 References
5 External links

[edit] History

For most of its history, Barstow was one of Kansas City's four all-girls private schools, along with Notre Dame de Sion, St. Teresa's Academy, and The Sunset Hill School. As a girls-only institution, the school was known as Miss Barstow's School or Miss Barstow's Finishing School for Girls. In 1960, boys were allowed in the first grade for the first time. Subsequently, Barstow became coeducational one grade at a time, until its first coed graduating class in 1972. Although its class sizes often were under ten, Barstow had two very famous alumni during its early days: movie star Jean Harlow and future First Lady Bess Truman. In the early 1970s, Barstow moved to its current location on State Line Road. Since then, it has seen Kansas City expand southward. Today, it hopes to grow further: in 2003, Barstow built a new Lower School.

[edit] Accreditation and memberships

Barstow holds membership in the National Association of Independent Schools, the Independent Schools Association of the Central States, the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, the Educational Records Bureau, the National and Missouri Associations for College Admission Counseling, the College Board and the Cum Laude Society. Barstow has a very large rivalry with the Pembroke Hill School both in academics and in athletics. The school's mascot is a knight.