The Mastery Learning program is a single semester, independent course open to Upper School students designed to provide an opportunity to explore a topic or execute a project that falls outside the boundaries of typical high school courses. For example, a student could choose to participate in the circus and produce a short movie about its history and modern iteration,...

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Our soccer team’s successes added extra excitement to what is always a fun time of year. Dress-up days, Halloween Candygrams, the Halloween Costume Contest, the Pep Rally, and the Homecoming Dance made for a very full week of fun. Many thanks to Student Council for coordinating the week’s events. Saturday night’s dance, An Evening Under the Stars, was a beautiful way to end this week of celebrating...

Dear Crossroads College Preparatory School Community: What counts as leadership or learning? What counts as diversity or justice? These questions have been on my mind since Monday when I left a Schools That Can meeting at UMSL. Together, public, charter, and independent school leaders and university leaders spent two hours in activities and conversation around this question: How can we...

Crossroads College Prep Student Council is sponsoring our annual canned food drive to help hungry people in St. Louis as Thanksgiving approaches. The canned food drive ends Friday, November 14th. Participation in past years has been outstanding – let’s make that happen again! This is a competition among classes. Points are added up and divided by the number of students...

Dear Crossroads College Preparatory School Community: What counts as leadership or learning? What counts as diversity or justice? These questions have been on my mind since Monday when I left a Schools That Can meeting at UMSL. Together, public, charter, and independent school leaders and university leaders spent two hours in activities and conversation around this question: How can we...

Christopher Limber, the director of the Crossroads fall play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, wrote the following program notes for the play. It has been my distinct pleasure over the past 5 weeks to work with an immensely talented group of students on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. We have explored our telling of the play, investigating its...

Congratulations to our student/athletes who were recognized as All-Conference performers. Seniors Andrew Kowalkowski and Caleb Hill were named 1st Team All-SCAA for soccer along with juniors Peter Hamilton and Ivan Boyers. Senior DJ Corbett and junior Tyler Doll were named to the 2nd Team. In volleyball, sophomore Kieran Uhlmansiek was named 1st Team All-SCAA while junior Elizabeth Birch was named...

The next Saturday tournament is November 15th! We will be playing in the Gateway Fall Open at Lindbergh High School. Depart from Crossroads: 7:15 AM (sharp) Tournament ends: 5:30 pm, with awards following. Return to school by 7 pm Cost of tournament: $12, cash or check payable to “Gateway Chess League” United States Chess Federation membership is required for this...

Thirty-six upper school students participated in the Excellence in Mathematics contest sponsored by the Mathematics Educators of St. Louis and the math department at St. Louis Community College Forest Park. More than 800 students from the greater St. Louis area participated. The Crossroads students performed very well again this year. There were awards for grade team and individuals. The team...