[7] The 18-acre site, located on the streetcar line from Clayton, was purchased for $18,000 ($330,000 today[8]) and the initial campus buildings, including a gymnasium, were built for $180,000.

[9] The gym was completed in December at a cost of $38,000; the main speaker at its dedication ceremony was Branch Rickey, manager of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team.

The child's mind is not a tablet to be written upon or a cistern to be filled, but a living, growing entity to be guided, developed, trained and inspired.

[11] In April 2020, the school received $2.5 million in federally backed small business loans as part of the Paycheck Protection Program.

The school received scrutiny over this loan, which was meant to protect small and private businesses, and returned the money to the Treasury Department the following month.