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St. Louis Community College–Wildwood

Public college in Wildwood, Missouri, US

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ7589603 ↗
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St. Louis Community College–Wildwood (commonly known as STLCC–Wildwood, or simply Wildwood) is the newest campus of STLCC. The campus is located in Wildwood, Missouri, a western suburb of St. Louis, Missouri.

History

The college opened in August 2007. The Wildwood campus was created because of the rapidly growing population of west St. Louis County and to relieve some of the pressures from STLCC-Meramec's growing and overcapacity 12,000-13,000 student population.

Campus

The Wildwood campus is located off Route 109 and Route 100 in West St. Louis County. Wildwood is state-of-the-art; it the first Green campus in Missouri built with environmentally friendly materials. The architecture of the building is also designed to enhance the health of the students and faculty using the facilities.

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“St. Louis Community College–Wildwood” enters the record as public college in Wildwood, Missouri, US. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Louis, Community and College can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “St. Louis Community College–Wildwood” 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.