Ritenour School District

After weeks in limbo, the St. Louis County school district says it was able to access more than $8 million in federal funding to pay for its full electric school bus order.

Academic performance at most public schools has improved, but attendance is not back to pre-pandemic levels, according to a new report from the Missouri Department of Secondary and Elementary Education.

According to Courage2Report, a Missouri statewide school safety initiative, there have already been 125 reported school violence tips between July and September — which is nearly as many as the number of tips reported in all of 2023.

There have been at least 20 threats since St. Louis Public Radio began keeping track about two weeks ago. They are taking a toll on area students, teachers and law enforcement.

Police arrested an unidentified juvenile Tuesday afternoon on gun charges after students reported an online threat made toward Ritenour High School.

A federal program is sending millions of dollars to a handful of St. Louis-area school districts so they can replace diesel buses with all-electric models.

At Ritenour High School, a program is encouraging former students to return as teachers.

English teacher Christina Andrade Melly is the second state teacher of the year from the Ritenour School District in the past few years.

A medida que las escuelas buscan soluciones creativas para ayudar a los estudiantes que están aprendiendo inglés, un distrito local está explorando un método de enseñanza que es popular en otras partes del país, pero que ha tardado en llegar a St. Louis.

As schools look for creative solutions to help students who are learning English, one local school district is exploring a teaching method that is popular in other parts of the country but has been slow to reach St. Louis.