School Closures

La Salle Charter Schools, a middle school in St. Louis' Carr Square neighborhood that serves a predominantly Black student population, will close at the end of the year. Leaders said low test scores caused the school to lose the confidence of its academic sponsors.

St. Louis Archdiocese leadership said feedback from the community highlighted the need to postpone plans to close schools.

Belleville is using tax increment finance money to close the deal even though Mayor Patty Gregory said the city would use a state grant to pay for the property.

City Attorney Garrett Hoerner said the city is in “preliminary planning stages” of what it would do with the campus.

St. Louis' school buildings have half as many kids in them as other big cities and school districts do.

The bioscience-themed high school lacks permanent laboratories. But students are skeptical of moving to a new site.

Sumner alumni are rooting to keep the historic high school open for the next generation after St. Louis Public Schools put Sumner on a closure list.

The school board voted 4-3 to close a smaller list of schools than it considered late last year.

St. Louis Public Schools parents will learn Tuesday evening if efforts over the past month to save 11 schools in the city from closing were successful.

St. Louis Public Schools plans to close 11 schools in response to shrinking enrollment. Community pushback has been strong.