The Barstow School is a secular, coeducational, independent preparatory school in southern Kansas City, Missouri, USA. The Barstow School is the oldest independent school west of the Mississippi. It was co-founded in 1884 by Mary Louise Barstow and Ada Brann. The Barstow School enrolls about 668 students from preschool through grade 12. The teacher-student ratio is 1:9.
The school has a strong academic tradition and matriculates nearly all of its graduates to four-year colleges. The Barstow School employs a hands-on learning strategy with an emphasis on technology.
The school has 41 athletic teams in 12 sports beginning in the sixth grade. The Barstow School is also the home to the Hybrid Learning Consortium, a globalized learning community offering a diverse variety of online courses to students around the world. The HLC currently has 19 member schools, both domestic and international. The HLC enables institutions to create a scalable model for diverse course offerings wider than a single institution can support.
Member of: 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 C** Laude Society.
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