THE BARSTOW SCHOOL

'The Barstow School' (commonly called simply 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.

Contents

History

Accreditation, Athletics, and Memberships

Notable alumni

References

External links

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. Recently, The Barstow School has expanded even more. In the summer of 2006, Barstow renovated its library and added several new classrooms and a new maintenance building.

Accreditation, Athletics, 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. Starting the 2007-2008 school year, the head coach for the Knights' basketball team will be Jeff Boschee, a well known former KU player. The tennis coach is Sarah Hofstra.

Notable alumni

★ Jean Harlow, film actress and top sex symbol of the 1930s, known as the "Platinum Blonde"^[2]

★ Bess Truman, the wife of Harry S Truman and First Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953.^[3]

★ Jamie Metzl, Politician and National Security expert.

References

1. The Barstow School at a Glance, accessed November 20, 2006
2. Jean Harlow Biographical Info, accessed November 20, 2006
3. Bess Truman from Encyclopædia Britannica, accessed November 20, 2006

External links

★ The Barstow School

★ Barstow School Academic Profile 2006-07

★ National Center for Education Statistics data for the Barstow School