Ladue Horton Watkins High School is a public high school in Ladue, Missouri, United States, that is administered by the Ladue School District. Its namesake, Horton Watkins, was vice president of the International Shoe Company and died in 1949. The family of Horton Watkins donated the tract of land on South Warson Road to the school for the high school site as a memorial.
Demographics The racial/ethnic breakdown of the 1,313 students enrolled for the 2024–2025 school year was:
White - 54.9% Black - 16.7% Asian/Pacific Islander - 16.2% Hispanic - 4.8% Multiracial - 7.3% American Indian/Alaskan Native - 0.1%
The male/female ratio for 2024–25 was: Male - 51% Female - 49%
In addition, 12% of the students were eligible for free or reduced lunch.
Activities For the 2011–12 school year, the school offered 26 activities approved by the Missouri State High School Activities Association (MSHSAA): baseball, boys and girls basketball, cheerleading, boys and girls cross country, dance team, field hockey, football, boys golf, girls lacrosse, orchestra, band and vocal music, scholar bowl, boys and girls soccer, girls softball, speech and debate, boys' and girls' swimming and diving, boys' and girls' tennis, boys and girls track and field, girls volleyball, water polo, and wrestling. In addition to its MSHSAA activities, the school offers students an opportunity to participate in a variety of other school-sponsored clubs.
The Ladue Rams have won several state championships:
Football: 2018 Boys Soccer: 2024 Boys' golf: 1960, 1970 Scholar Bowl: 2006, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2021 Boys' swimming and diving: 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963 Girls swimming and diving: 1976, 2019 Boys tennis: 1962, 1985, 1995, 2022 Girls Tennis: 1978, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 2009, 2022 Boys track and field: 2003 Girls track and field: 2005, 2009 Boys Ice hockey: 1994, 2012 (Founder's Cup), 2021 (Wickenheiser Cup) Water Polo: 1973
In 2013 Ladue's Scholar Bowl team won the National Scholastics Championship.
Student activities:
Football Girls and boys swimming Water polo Softball Poms Wrestling Soccer Tennis Basketball Cheerleading Golf Lacrosse Field Hockey Volleyball Ladue Hockey Baseball Track Cross Country The Ladudes (male a cappella) Viva Voce (female a cappella)
Notable alumni
John H. "Todd" Armstrong '56 - actor, star of Jason and the Argonauts Paul William Bucha - '61 - Medal of Honor recipient, US Army, Captain, Vietnam Jehu Chesson '12 - football player for the Michigan Wolverines and the Kansas City Chiefs Christy Ferer '68 - style commentator and entrepreneur Jack Fox '15 - Pro-Bowl punter for the Detroit Lions Frances Ginsberg '73 - opera soprano Duane Hawthorne '95 - football player Marty Hogan '76 - racquetball player Willy Holtzman '69 - Award-winning playwright & Screenwriter Tal Kopan '05 - journalist Stuart Kornfeld '54 - professor of glycobiology Karyn Kusama '86 - film director Dorothea Lasky '96 - poet Jim McKelvey '83 - co-founder of Square, Inc. Joel Meyers '72 - sportscaster Eric Nenninger '97 - actor Elissa L. Newport '65 - scientist Jean Passanante '71 - television screenwriter Andy Russell '59 - football player Becky Sauerbrunn '03 - soccer player, U.S. Women's National Team Jeff Smith '92 - politician Ben C. Solomon '06 - Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Kevin Spirtas, '80 - actor Todd Susman ‘65 - actor Courtney Van Buren '98 - football player Justin Willman '98 - actor, magician and entertainer
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