Normandy Schools Collaborative

The first recorded account of the schools in Normandy is found in the minutes of the Board of Directors of Schools dated July 12, 1894. It was then a three-director rural district with three public schools already in operation. It was known as District No. 2, Township 46, Range 6 East, Eden, St. Louis County, Missouri. The first school built was Washington School, constructed in 1894 on one acre in the northeast corner of what is now Valhalla Cemetery. Prior to its absorption by the Normandy School District, the Wellston district had about 600 students, one high school, one middle school, and one elementary school. All three schools closed at the end of the 2009–2010 school year. In September 2012, the Missouri Board of Education voted to remove accreditation from Normandy School District due to ongoing academic issues. In May 2013, discipline incident rates at Normandy High School were the second-highest among all schools in the state and the highest in Greater St. Louis. The Board also voted to stop paying tuition and transportation costs for students who transferred from the district (about $1.3 million to 14 districts in Greater St. Louis). On October 26, 2013, Missouri Education Commissioner Chris Nicastro noted that the State Board of Education is examining the possibility of removing the local Normandy School Board from power, Educational and financial crisis At the beginning of the 2013–2014 school year, Normandy School District had 4,590 students. 97% of Normandy students are black, 1.4% are white, and 1.1% are Hispanic. 91.7% of students receive free or reduced price lunches. The district did not make adequate yearly progress toward state goals in communication arts, mathematics, graduation rate, or attendance rate for 2011. ==Boundary==

The district, entirely in St. Louis County, includes most of Normandy and almost all of Wellston, as well as all of Bel-Nor, Bel-Ridge, Bellerive Acres, Beverly Hills, Glen Echo Park, Greendale, Hanley Hills, Hillsdale, Northwoods, Norwood Court, Pagedale, Pasadena Hills, Pasadena Park, Pine Lawn, Uplands Park, Velda City, and Velda Village Hills. It also includes a portion of Vinita Park and small portions of Charlack, Cool Valley, Jennings and St. John. The district includes the former territory of Vinita Terrace. ==Schools==

As of the 2025-2026 school year, the Normandy School District operated one high school, Normandy High School. The district also operated several other schools, including: Middle school: • Normandy Middle School at Lucas Crossing Elementary schools: • Bel-Nor School • At one time it closed in 2014. In 2015 the district planned to repurpose the building as a school for kindergarten students. It is an active school again. • Jefferson School - Pasadena Hills • Barack Obama School • Barack Obama School is in Pine Lawn. It is a consolidation of Garfield Elementary School and Pine Lawn Elementary School. In 2010 all of the members of the board of trustees voted to name the school after then-President of the United States Barack Obama. Cozy Marks, the president of the board of trustees, believed that African-American children would identify with what Obama did. Students at Garfield and Pine Lawn schools selected Obama's name in a poll for the name of the consolidated school. The area of the building is . The school began operations in 2011. Other schools: • Normandy Early Learning Center Alternative: • Normandy Alternative Learning Center (CASA) Former schools • Bel-Ridge Elementary School was in Bel-Ridge. It closed in 2011. Lucas Crossing Elementary School, scheduled to open in 2001, took students formerly at Harrison Elementary. • Lincoln Elementary School was in Pagedale. Lucas Crossing Elementary School, scheduled to open in 2001, took students formerly at Lincoln Elementary. • Lucas Crossing Elementary School, scheduled to open in 2001, took students formerly at Harrison, Lincoln, and McKinley elementaries. • The Normandy Kindergarten Center had a Bel-Nor postal address but was in Bel-Ridge. • McKinley Elementary School, of the Normandy district, had a Hillsdale postal address but was in Velda City. Lucas Crossing Elementary School, scheduled to open in 2001, took students formerly at McKinley Elementary. and Eskridge High School. ==A New Start==

In 2014, the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education declared the Normandy School District as unaccredited and re-established the district as the Normandy Schools Collaborative. The new entity struggled financially and academically those first few years. However, the new district began to make gains on the Missouri Annual Performance Report. ==References==