University City High School (Missouri)

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University City High School

Address

7401 Balson Avenue University City, MO 63130 United States
Coordinates	38°39′54″N 90°19′45″W / 38.6651°N 90.3293°W / 38.6651; -90.3293
Information
Type	Comprehensive public high school
Founded	1930
Principal	Mike Peoples
Staff	56.41 (FTE)
Grades	9–12
Number of students	726 (2022–23)
Student to teacher ratio	12.87
Color(s)	Black and gold
Mascot	Lions (formerly Indians)
Website	ucityschools.org

University City High School (UCHS) is a public high school in University City, Missouri, United States, that is part of the School District of University City.

As part of the University City Education District, the high school building was listed, along with nearby Jackson Park Elementary School and Hanley Junior High School, in the National Register of Historic Places on January 31, 1985.

Notable alumni

David Bass, NFL football player
Bud Black, major-league pitcher
Harold Brodkey, writer
Jeremy Davenport, jazz musician
Carl Dennis, Pulitzer Prize winning poet
Bing Devine, former General Manager of the St. Louis Cardinals
Marty Ehrlich, jazz musician
Malcolm Frager, pianist
Bob Gale, screenwriter, author, movie producer
Dave Garroway, broadcaster
Bernard Gilkey, major-league outfielder
Marty Hendin, St. Louis Cardinals former director of public relations
Ken Holtzman, two-time All Star major-league pitcher
Art Jimmerson, professional boxer
Peter Martin, jazz pianist
Ed Mickelson, major-league first baseman
Samuel Moyn, historian
Nelly, rapper
Billy Lawrence, singer
Virginia E. Palmer, United States Ambassador to Ghana
Leslie Parnas, cellist
Robert Person, major-league pitcher
Leonard Roberts, actor
Art Shamsky, major-league outfielder and Israel Baseball League manager
William Sleator, author
Marlene Terry, politician
Tershawn Wharton, NFL player
Tennessee Williams, playwright
Lew Wolff, co-owner of the Oakland Athletics

Notes

"University City High School Building History". www.ucityschools.org. Retrieved October 24, 2023.
^ "UNIVERSITY CITY SR. HIGH". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved July 23, 2024.
"University City Education District". NPGallery Asset Detail, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2021-11-30.
"National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form: University City Education District" (PDF). MOStateparks.com. United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service. November 15, 1984.
^ "University City HS (University City, MO)". baseball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved June 4, 2012.
^ Perkins, Terry (June 9, 1999). "Lion Tamers". Riverfront Times. Archived from the original on September 26, 2011.
"2002 Hall of Fame Inductee: Carl Dennis" (PDF). The School District of University City. Retrieved June 9, 2023.
Hampel, Paul (April 3, 2011). "Norman Goldberg dies; music was his passion". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Retrieved March 5, 2019.
Friswold, Paul; Gray, Guy; Hays, Anna Teekell; Whitney, Christine (October 5, 2005). "It Was Twenty Years Ago Today". Riverfront Times. Retrieved June 9, 2023.
Brown Jr., Sylvester, "It'll be great St. Louis jazz – and it'll be in St. Louis", St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 25, 2007, Section C, page 1.
"St. Louisans Return to Open Civic Season". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. October 25, 1964. p. 34. Retrieved May 21, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
"Representative Marlene Terry". house.mo.gov. Retrieved 2021-02-12.

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Education in St. Louis County, Missouri

This includes institutions outside of the city limits of St. Louis which have "St. Louis, MO" postal addresses.
Note multiple places with "St. Louis, MO" postal addresses are not in the St. Louis city limits.

K-12

School districts

Special district

Special School District of St. Louis County

Public
high schools

Closed	Berkeley Douglass Kinloch

Private
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Closed	Trinity Catholic

Tertiary institutions
Four-year	Fontbonne University Maryville University Missouri Baptist University Washington University in St. Louis Webster University
Community college	St. Louis Community College
Seminaries	Covenant Theological Seminary

Supplementary education
Weekend schools	St. Louis Japanese School

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Suburban Central Conference - National Division	Clayton High School Ladue Horton Watkins High School Parkway Central High School Parkway West High School University City High School
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High schools in Greater St. Louis

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Closed	John F. Kennedy Trinity

Catholic private
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