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The Mehlville School District has purchased a house next to Oakville High School that could serve as the future site of the school’s first auditorium but there are currently no plans to actually build what would be the district’s second auditorium. The district closed June 1 on the purchase of 2.2 acres at 5501.
The Mehlville School District will be graduating its first class of students from its Early College academy program, which gives eligible high school students in the district the opportunity to earn college credit up to an Associate of Arts simultaneously with their high school degree.
The academy will graduate seven students at the end of this school year: Madison Appel, David Genovese, Alex Parum and Melisa Vilic from Oakville High School, and Aryianna Batie, Hannah Drzewiecki and Myia Warden from Mehlville High School.
Mehlville High and Oakville High students enrolled in the program attend college full time and tuition-free at St. Louis Community College campuses. The courses satisfy both high school and college credit requirements and students can still be involved in athletics, arts and other extracurricular programs at their respective schools.
Firefighters were called to Oakville High School Tuesday afternoon to remove a hazardous substance out of an abundance of caution, the school district said. Materials for science laboratories are stored in a special room at the high school at 5557 Milburn Road in Oakville, and teachers check on those materials every day, Mehlville School District.
The Kiwanis Club of South County-St. Louis awarded a $1,000 scholarship in May to Charlotte Norton of Oakville High School. Charlotte is the daughter of Derek and Johnna Norton. She will attend Southeast Missouri State University after graduating to pursue a degree in communication disorders. She has volunteered through A+ tutoring and Special Olympics. She played high school field hockey and soccer, served on Student Council and has been on honor roll all four years and will graduate summa cum laude.