Carnahan High School is a high school located in

St. Louis, Missouri St. Louis () is the second-largest city in Missouri, United States. It sits near the confluence of the Mississippi River, Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, while the Greater St. Louis, ...

, United States. It is a part of

St. Louis Public Schools Saint Louis Public School District (SLPS) is the school district that operates public schools in the City of St. Louis, Missouri (but not St. Louis County, which is an entity independent of the city). History Beginnings The act of the Unite ...

. It is named after Mel Carnahan, the 51st Governor of Missouri who served from 1993 to 2000, when he died in a plane crash.

History

Carnahan High School of the Future sits in Dutchtown bordered by a park, a business district and a residential area. In 2011, the school was visited by Secretary of Education

Arne Duncan Arne Starkey Duncan (born November 6, 1964) is an American educator who served as United States Secretary of Education from 2009 to 2015 and as Chief Executive Officer of Chicago Public Schools from 2001 to 2008. A lifelong resident of Chicago, Du ...

, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, and Governor Jay Nixon.

Academics

Carnahan ranked 43rd among Missouri High Schools. The school has 3 AP Classes: AP Language and Composition, AP Literature and Composition, AP World History. CHF has also sent a team to the Global Hack VI, an international computer coding competition and one of only 3 in SLPS to do.

References

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