Fern Ridge High School - Creve Coeur, Missouri/MO

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Fern Ridge High School

13157 N Olive Spur Rd, Creve Coeur, MO, 63141-6174 -

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Definition of Terms

Fern Ridge High School

School Level

High school

Grades Offered

Grades 9 - 12

County

St. Louis County, MO

Students & Faculty

Total Students

83 students

% Male / % Female

52% / 48%

Total Classroom Teachers

11 teachers

Students by Grade

Grade 9 - 10 students

Grade 10 - 13 students

Grade 11 - 30 students

Grade 12 - 30 students

This School

(MO) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:8

1:15

Students by Ethnicity

This School

(MO) School Average

% American Indian	n/a	n/a
% Asian	2%	1%
% Hispanic	1%	2%
% Black	19%	15%
% White	77%	79%
% Unknown	1 %	3%

Additional Student Information

This School

(MO) School Average

% Eligible for Free Lunch

23%

% Eligible for Reduced Lunch

% Migrant Students Enrolled

n/a

n/a

(MO) Statewide Testing Performance

School Statewide Performance

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School District Name

Parkway C-2 School District

This School's Agency

(MO) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	28	3
Number of Students Managed	18,786 students	780 students
District Total Revenue	$193,334,000	$5,919,000
District Expenditure	$199,079,000	$5,617,000
District Revenue / Student	$10,291	$7,588
District Expenditure / Student	$10,597	$7,201
District Graduation Rates	95%	96%

Parkway schools at odds with neighborhood over bus depot (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
posted on March 18, 2009 at 09:24:11 am
March 17, 2009 -- The Parkway School District’s central maintenance and bus operations center in Chesterfield on Tuesday. Neighbors complain of noise, fumes and trash.
Residents complain about Parkway Central campus (Suburban Journals)
posted on March 17, 2009 at 04:11:40 pm
Residents of Agusta Drive in the Ladue Trails subdivision in Chesterfield say they want more done to address lights, unsightliness and noise on the Parkway Central and Middle schools campus on North Woods Mill Road.
PARKWAY SCHOOLS: Residents say school generates too much noise, light (Suburban Journals)
posted on March 9, 2009 at 07:15:24 am
Residents of Agusta Drive in Chesterfield's Ladue Trails subdivision want to close the book on lights and noise coming from the Parkway Central high school and middle school campus on North Woods Mill Road.

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Fern Ridge High School is a non-traditional high school in Unincorporated St. Louis County, St. Louis County, Missouri. The school's motto is "Because it matters." The Parkway School District operates the alternative high school and ensures that individual attention is provided by limiting enrollment to a maximum of 100 students. Students must choose to come to Fern Ridge. They cannot be sent by their parents, the court system, or district officials. In their applications and interviews for admission, prospective students must demonstrate needs that can't be met at a regular school. Every student is assigned a mentor, with each faculty member acting as a mentor to about ten students (this group is referred to as a "huddle").
Student life
On every Friday, the school has a Blow-Pop assembly. During this assembly, each teacher recognizes 4 or 5 students who have done something such as achieved a big goal, received a passing grade. The student of the week is also introduced. The student of the week gets to take any staff/faculty member out to lunch at an area restaurant. The student also gets their picture put on the wall near the office and gets money for one free soda from the soda vending machine. Another thing the school does is instead of ringing a bell to signal the beginning and end of class, the secretary plays music over the loudspeaker (A bell was recently installed outside of the school to get all students who are outdoors to come in.) The school also has two trips a year that are community service. The students sign-up to volunteer at a certain site and then go to that site for about 1.5 hours. The students at the school also have off-campus lunch privileges if their parents permit this (The school does check to make sure they are permitted to.) They can go off-campus and pick up lunch at an area restaurant as long as they are back by the end of lunch. One down-side of Fern Ridge is that there are not as many elective choices as at the districts four traditional high schools because the school is so small and there aren't as many teachers as that at a regular high school.
On Friday, October 26, 2007. Fern Ridge hosted its first Homecoming Alumni Palloza-All School Reunion. This event featured was open to all former students and staff as well as current students and staff, and featured several speakers including Fern Ridge graduates as well as former and current falculty/staff members. The event also featured videos from early drama productions and building tours led by current students.
Philosophy
The school bases its approach on constructivism, which is founded on the premise that learning is initiated and directed by the student, not the teacher. The school also uses Multiple Intelligences, a psychological and educational theory.
External links
Official site of school

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