New City School is a non-sectarian, co-educational independent elementary school in St. Louis, Missouri. It was founded in 1969 by a group of parents interested in creating a progressive school in the then-struggling Central West End area of St. Louis. It practices a progressive approach to education based on the theory of multiple intelligences. It is housed in a renovated turn-of-the-century school building in the Central West End of St. Louis. The school’s stated goals are “Academic Excellence, Personal Intelligence, Diversity Beyond the Numbers, and Joyful Learning”. The emphasis on diversity is reflected by the student population which is 33% students of color.
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