Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School
private school in Ladue, , Missouri, United States
MICDS (Mary Institute and Saint Louis Country Day School) is an American secular, co-educational, independent school with approximately 1,250 students from junior kindergarten through grade 12. Its 110-acre (45 ha) campus is located in the St. Louis, Missouri, suburb of Ladue.
Each of the school's three divisions operate somewhat independently as a "school within a school". The Lower School, also referred to as The Ronald S. Beasley School, or "Beasley" for short, is for students in junior kindergarten through grade 4. The MICDS Middle School, grades 5 to 8, is in the former Mary Institute facilities. The Upper School on the former Country Day School campus serves grades 9 through 12.
History
William Greenleaf Eliot, founder and chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis, established predecessor institutions to MICDS in the 1850s as part of the university. A boys' school, Smith Academy, was founded in 1854.
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