Parkway West High School

Parkway West High School
Address
14653 Clayton Road
Ballwin, Missouri, 63011
USA
Coordinates 38°37′22″N 90°32′5″W / 38.62278°N 90.53472°WCoordinates: 38°37′22″N 90°32′5″W / 38.62278°N 90.53472°W
Information
School type Public comprehensive high school
Established 1968
School district Parkway School District
NCES School ID 292358001404[1]
Principal Jeremy Mitchell
Faculty 79[1]
Grades 9–12
Enrollment 1290[1]
Campus Suburban
Color(s) Red and blue
         
Athletics conference Suburban West Conference
Mascot Longhorn
Newspaper Pathfinder
Website School website

Parkway West High School is a public comprehensive high school in Ballwin, Missouri that is part of the Parkway School District.

History

PWHS was the second high school built in the Parkway School District; it opened in the fall of 1968 with grades 10-12. In the 1969-1970 school year, Parkway West Junior High was formed, and grades 7-9 were housed in the West Senior building operating on the same schedule as West Senior. For the 1970-71 school year, West Senior operated as a four year high school (grades 9-12), with West Junior grades 7 & 8 attending Parkway South Junior High School on a split schedule. Members of the Class of '74 attended school in the West Senior building for five straight years. West Junior opened for the 1971-1972 school year with the new "open classroom" layout. One of the unusual features of PWHS was that for 13 years under the leadership of principal Al Burr, they operated without any written rules or regulations—only mutual agreements and expectations.[2]

Activities

For the 2013–2014 school year, the school offered 28 activities approved by the Missouri State High School Activities Association (MSHSAA): baseball, boys and girls basketball, sideline cheerleading, boys and girls cross country, dance team, field hockey, 11-man 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.[3] In addition to its current activities, Parkway West students have won several state championships, including:

Alumni

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Search for Public Schools - School Detail for West High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved 1 November 2013.
  2. ↑ "West High" (ENGLISH). Retrieved 2010-07-10.
  3. ↑ MSHSAA: Parkway West
  4. ↑ MSHSAA: Championship Histories by Sport
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Dillon, D. (2005) So Where'd You Go to High School?Vol. 2, Virginia Publishing.
  6. ↑ "Chris Cissell Named 2006 NSCAA/adidas National Coach of the Year" www.jewell.edu, retrieved August 12, 2008.
  7. ↑ St. Louis native is new leader of U.S. Fleet Forces Command