Parkway School District
school district in St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Parkway C-2 School District, or Parkway Schools, is a public school district serving eight municipalities in western St. Louis County, Missouri, United States. The district headquarters is in Chesterfield. The district operates four comprehensive high schools, one alternative high school, five middle schools, and eighteen elementary schools, and one early childhood center. The district is named for the Daniel Boone Parkway, also known as Interstate 64.
Boundary
The district includes all of Country Life Acres, as well as the majorities of Creve Coeur, Manchester, Town and Country, and Winchester. It also includes portions of Chesterfield, Des Peres, Maryland Heights, Twin Oaks, Valley Park, Ballwin and Westwood.
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This entry incorporates text from “Parkway School District” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.