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The Pattonville High School student news website PattonvilleTODAY.com has been recognized as a Distinguished Site by School Newspapers Online (SNO) for the second straight year. Only 61 schools have earned Distinguished Sites recognition this year out of 532 participating schools.

The SNO Distinguished Sites recognition program gives news staffs six standards that will help their publications excel online. If a site earns all six badges during the application period, it will be awarded the honor of being a SNO Distinguished Site for the calendar year. 

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Pattonville High School held its 86th annual commencement on May 26 and had 423 students graduate in the Class of 2022.

  • 88% plan on continuing their education at four-year universities, two-year colleges or career/technical/apprenticeship programs
  • 5 students have enlisted in the military
  • 153 earned the honors of summa, magna or cum laude (3.5 weighted GPA or greater)
  • 74 earned A+ status, which makes them eligible for paid tuition to any Missouri community college or career education school
  • 52 students earned industry-recognized credentials or certifications such as certified nurse assistant, 911 dispatching, education fundamentals, early childhood education, automotive service excellence, Boeing Pre-Employment Training and Serv-Safe certification
  • Seniors earned $8.2 million in scholarships
  • 12 qualified to receive Missouri’s Bright Flight Scholarship based on a qualifying score on the ACT
  • Seniors completed more than 5,000 hours of community service during high school
  • 20 earned community service honor cords for volunteering 150 hours or more
  • Top three seniors for hours of community service: Top 3 seniors for service hours: Kalista Roades (570 hours), Deandre Westbrook III (544 hours) and Amaya Washington (520)

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Eleven Pattonville staff members graduated from Webster University with a masters degree and Missouri state certification in ESOL. Webster University’s Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) program received a National Professional Development grant from the U.S. Department of Education. In this grant application, the university partnered with area schools including Pattonville School District.
 
The participating teachers were part of a two-year grant through the university that has now graduated nine cohorts over the past five years.  

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Pattonville High School senior Matthew Reese was named the Outstanding Senior for the Class of 2022. The Outstanding Senior is chosen each year from teacher nominations. 

The high school also honored several seniors with Outstanding Senior Departmental Awards and other special recognitions. Each department recognizes one student who has shown outstanding academic achievement, leadership and citizenship. 

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Pattonville High School junior Anthony Cruz and senior Lauren Keller placed in an international art contest hosted by the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum. 

Both students are in Marcia Mueller's Painting 2 class and submitted work that was inspired by an Anne Frank quote which was the basis of this year’s Art & Writing Contest theme.

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