School Profile

Confluence Preparatory Academy

Student Demographics

Grades: 9-12

Enrollment: 413

Sponsor: University of Missouri-Columbia

Gender: Male – 51% Female – 49%

Race/Ethnicity: Black/AA – 98% Hispanic – 1.7% White - .3%

Student Performance (2018 DESE Reports)

4 Year Grad Rate: 90.9%

5 Year Grad Rate: 86.9%

Post-Secondary Ed: 4 Year College – 35% 2 Year College – 17.5%

Key Facts

Confluence Preparatory Academy opened in 2008 at the Confluence Academy-South City campus. In 2009, CPA moved to downtown St. Louis, next to Central St. Louis Public Library.
CPA is a Missouri A+ High School. Students in the A+ Program commit to community service through tutoring, earning a minimum 2.5 GPA and maintaining good citizenship to receive free tuition to a community college in the state of Missouri after graduation.
CPA is involved in the Gateway2Change St. Louis Student Summits on Race.
CPA’s FIRST Robotics team, RoboSWAG, Team 4331, consistently participates in the St. Louis FIRST Robotics Regionals in the spring. FIRST – For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology – is based in science, technology, engineering and math and develops skills in students through robotics.
Traditionally, more than 50 percent of CPA students attended a Confluence Charter School.
CPA graduated its sixth class of students in May 2017 with 80 seniors. Students earned $129,000 in college aid.
In 2017-2018, Project Lead The Way will begin at CPA with Principles of Biomedical Science. PLTW is a nonprofit organization that provides transformative learning experiences for students in K-12 in pathways that include computer science, engineering and biomedical science.
Advanced Placement in English language and psychology are taught at Confluence Preparatory Academy.