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Ladue Horton Watkins High School

Field	Value
name	Ladue Horton Watkins High School
logo	Ladue Horton Watkins High School logo.png
logo_size	200px
established	1952
type	Comprehensive public high school
principal	Brad Griffith
address	1201 South Warson Road
city	Ladue, Missouri
country	USA
coordinates
district	Ladue School District
enrollment	1,325 (2023-2024)
teaching_staff	94.20 (FTE)
ratio	14.07
campus_type	Suburban
school_colors	Blue and white
athletic conference	Suburban Central Conference
nickname	Rams
rivals	Clayton High School
accreditation
USNWR_ranking	166th (2013)
newspaper	Panorama
feeder_schools	Ladue Middle School
footnotes
website

Ladue Horton Watkins High School is a public high school in Ladue, Missouri, United States, that is administered by the Ladue School District. Its namesake, Horton Watkins, was vice president of the International Shoe Company and died in 1949. The family of Horton Watkins donated the 28 acre tract of land on South Warson Road to the school for the high school site as a memorial.

Demographics

The racial/ethnic breakdown of the 1,313 students enrolled for the 2024–2025 school year was:

White - 54.9%
Black - 16.7%
Asian/Pacific Islander - 16.2%
Hispanic - 4.8%
Multiracial - 7.3%
American Indian/Alaskan Native - 0.1%

The male/female ratio for 2024–25 was:

Male - 51%
Female - 49%

In addition, 12% of the students were eligible for free or reduced lunch.

Activities

For the 2011–12 school year, the school offered 26 activities approved by the Missouri State High School Activities Association (MSHSAA): baseball, boys and girls basketball, cheerleading, boys and girls cross country, dance team, field hockey, football, boys golf, girls lacrosse, orchestra, band and vocal music, scholar bowl, boys and girls soccer, girls softball, speech and debate, boys' and girls' swimming and diving, boys' and girls' tennis, boys and girls track and field, girls volleyball, water polo, and wrestling. In addition to its MSHSAA activities, the school offers students an opportunity to participate in a variety of other school-sponsored clubs.

The Ladue Rams have won several state championships:

Football: 2018
Boys Soccer: 2024
Boys' golf: 1960, 1970
Scholar Bowl: 2006, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2021
Boys' swimming and diving: 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963
Girls swimming and diving: 1976, 2019
Boys tennis: 1962, 1985, 1995, 2022
Girls Tennis: 1978, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 2009, 2022
Boys track and field: 2003
Girls track and field: 2005, 2009
Boys Ice hockey: 1994, 2012 (Founder's Cup), 2021 (Wickenheiser Cup)
Water Polo: 1973

In 2013 Ladue's Scholar Bowl team won the National Scholastics Championship.

Student activities:

Football
Girls and boys swimming
Water polo
Softball
Poms
Wrestling
Soccer
Tennis
Basketball
Cheerleading
Golf
Lacrosse
Field Hockey
Volleyball
Ladue Hockey
Baseball
Track
Cross Country
The Ladudes (male a cappella)
Viva Voce (female a cappella)

Notable alumni

John H. "Todd" Armstrong '56 - actor, star of Jason and the Argonauts
Paul William Bucha - '61 - Medal of Honor recipient, US Army, Captain, Vietnam
Jehu Chesson '12 - football player for the Michigan Wolverines and the Kansas City Chiefs
Christy Ferer '68 - style commentator and entrepreneur
Jack Fox '15 - Pro-Bowl punter for the Detroit Lions
Frances Ginsberg '73 - opera soprano
Duane Hawthorne '95 - football player
Marty Hogan '76 - racquetball player
Willy Holtzman '69 - Award-winning playwright & Screenwriter
Tal Kopan '05 - journalist
Stuart Kornfeld '54 - professor of glycobiology
Karyn Kusama '86 - film director
Dorothea Lasky '96 - poet
Jim McKelvey '83 - co-founder of Square, Inc.
Joel Meyers '72 - sportscaster
Eric Nenninger '97 - actor
Elissa L. Newport '65 - scientist
Jean Passanante '71 - television screenwriter
Andy Russell '59 - football player
Becky Sauerbrunn '03 - soccer player, U.S. Women's National Team
Jeff Smith '92 - politician
Ben C. Solomon '06 - Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Kevin Spirtas, '80 - actor
Todd Susman ‘65 - actor
Courtney Van Buren '98 - football player
Justin Willman '98 - actor, magician and entertainer

References

"LADUE HORTON WATKINS HIGH". National Center for Education Statistics.
"Search for Public Schools - School Detail for Ladue Horton Watkins High". ed.gov.
"Ladue Horton Watkins High School". US News & World Report.
LANIT Consulting. "::MSHSAA::Ladue Horton Watkins High School". mshsaa.org.
"MSHSAA: Championship Histories by Sport".
"MSHSAA State Championships". Missouri State High School Activities Association.
"Champions".
"Quizbowl Research Database".
(December 19, 2013). "St. Louisan Todd Armstrong Starred in JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS in 1963".
"Distinguished Alumni".

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