Pattonville High School senior Mya Harris was named the Outstanding Senior for the Class of 2021. 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. This year’s Outstanding Senior Departmental Award winners are:

The Pattonville High School student news website PattonvilleTODAY.com has been recognized as a Distinguished Site by School Newspapers Online (SNO).

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. 

To achieve this award, the newspaper must earn each of the six badges: Multimedia, Audience Engagement, Continuous Coverage, Story Page Excellence, Site Excellence and Best of SNO.

Students in the orchestra program at Pattonville High School earned All-Suburban and District Solo and Ensemble Festival honors this spring.

Students selected to the All-Suburban Orchestra are Sydney Hoynacki and Anna Kasprzyk for bass; Kenedi Jenkins for cello; Chandler Fajardo and Aaron Wolz for viola; and Maya Blumenthal, Elly Lu and Norina Shao for violin. 

Additionally, many students earned rankings at the District Solo and Ensemble Festival.

Pattonville High School senior Jordyn Lodes is among the third group of winners in the 2021 National Merit Scholarship Program. She received the National Merit University of Missouri - Columbia Scholarship. Her probable career field is mechanical engineering.