ST. LOUIS — At least 2,000 children were displaced from their homes in the city after the May 16 tornado, according to an estimate from St. Louis Public Schools.
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Sumner High School will be relocated to Stevens Middle School, pictured, in fall of 2025 due to tornado damage at Sumner.
Tornado damage and debris are seen at Yeatman-Liddell Middle School, a St. Louis Public school in the 4600 block of Athlone Avenue, in the O’Fallon neighborhood of St. Louis.
NTB Wolfpack player Joshua Smith, 13, right, leads an agility drill on Thursday, June 5, 2025, as a blue tarp covers roof damage atop Sumner High School in The Ville neighborhood of St. Louis.
Workers with the city of St. Louis Forestry Division work to clear fallen trees that block an entrance of Hickey Elementary School on Sunday May, 18, 2025. The St. Louis public school was one of several in the district that were damaged by the Friday, May 16, 2025, tornado.
Denice Porter, a member of the American Federation of Teachers Local 420, speaks with other members of the union while picketing for collective bargaining outside of the St. Louis Public Schools building in St. Louis on Tuesday, July 8, 2025. The union is pushing for negotiations over relocating tornado-damaged schools.Ìý
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The superintendent of St. Louis Public Schools, Millicent Borishade, speaks to the media on Monday, May 19, 2025.
Under the proposal, St. Louis Public Schools would close 37 schools and keep 31 open in what would be the city’s largest round of closures.
Two years of deficit spending, federal budget cuts and the tornado have put St. Louis Public Schools on track to deplete its financial reserve…
Tenants say a Central West End apartment complex forced people to pay rent and keep their leases despite the building being severely damaged.
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Soldan and Sumner high schools sustained the most damage and are not expected to reopen until spring 2027.
