PARKWAY NORTH HIGH SCHOOL

'Parkway North High School' is a secondary school in the Parkway School District located in Creve Coeur, Missouri. Their mascot is the Viking. Both the building and the 36.41 acres of land it occupies were appraised in 2006 at a combined value of $25,639,200^[1] by St. Louis County.

Contents

Building architecture

Students

Notable alumni

References

External links

Building architecture

The school is notable in its extensive use of open classrooms, insofar that the school was originally constructed without walls separating classrooms. This was a trend in architecture in 1971 when the building was constructed. However, the infeasibility of this design was discovered ten years later, and plaster walls were inserted between classrooms, resulting in an eclectic mix of architectural styling, not to mention the logistical problems with these newly-created rooms receiving proper HVAC ventilation. The new science department contains traditional classrooms with walls, moving the school away from its original architecture.

Students

Parkway North boasts a diverse student body. The surrounding area contains many Jewish and Asian families. In addition, the school busses in African American and minority students from St. Louis City.

Notable alumni

★ Brad Edelman (1978), NFL player for the New Orleans Saints (1982-1989) and Lombardi Award nominee

★ Steve Savard (1982), triple Emmy Award winning sportscaster, KMOV television; St. Louis Rams radio play-by-play broadcaster (2000–present)

★ Randy and Jason Sklar (1990), twin comedians, former hosts of ESPN Classic's ''Cheap Seats'' (2004-2006) comedy series, and voices of conjoined twins Chip and Biff Oblong on ''The Oblongs…'' (2001-2002) cartoon series, one-time colleagues of Ari Gold in HBO's ''Entourage''.

★ Josiah Rosen (2002) founding member of Augustana, a rock group formed at Greenville College outside St. Louis in 2002, which released the album ''All the Stars and Boulevards'' in 2005 on Epic Records

★ Jason Rothman (1996), Justin Rothman (2000), and Josh Rothman (2003), brothers and members of the band Living Things

★ Jeremy Boyer, assistant organ player at Busch Stadium for the St. Louis Cardinals with the great Ernie Hays.

References

1. http://revenue.stlouisco.com/ias/

External links

★ Parkway North High School website

★ Parkway Alumni Association

★ Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Building Profile for Parkway North High School