Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Christian Fellowship School, Christian High School, Columbia Independent School, Crossroads College Preparatory School, Eagle Ridge Christian School, Heritage Academy (Columbia, Missouri), John Burroughs School, Lutheran High School North (Missouri), Lutheran High School South, Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School, Meramec Valley Christian School, Missouri Military Academy, North County Christian School, St. Joseph Christian School, St. Pauls Episcopal Day School, Sunnydale Adventist Academy, The Barstow School, The Pembroke Hill School, The Principia, Thomas Jefferson Independent Day School, Thomas Jefferson School, Wentworth Military Academy and College, Westminster Christian Academy (Missouri), Whitefield Academy (Missouri), Whitfield School. Excerpt: Wentworth Military Academy and College is a private four-year college preparatory high school and military junior college. It is located in Lexington, Missouri, part of the Greater Kansas City Metropolitan Area. Wentworth is the oldest military academy west of the Mississippi River, and the campus is on the National Register of Historic Places. It is one of five military junior colleges in the United States. Among the programs that Wentworth offers is the Armys two-year Early Commissioning Program, an Army Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) program through which qualified students can earn a commission as a Second Lieutenant after two years of college. Wentworth also has had 100% acceptance into the Air Force Academy over the past 20 years through its Falcon Foundation Scholarship program. Because the high school shares the campus with the junior college, many high school students accelerate their education and gain college credit during their junior and senior years. Lexingtons Civil War Battle of the Hemp Bales was still a recent memory when Stephen G. Wentworth founded Wentworth Military Academy in 1880. By the 1870s, the town had already attained the reputation as the Athens of the West for its many academic institutions. Lexington was home to three notable schools for girls. Lexington Baptist Female College was started in 1850 in the old county courthouse that had been abandoned upon the construction of the new Lafayette County Courthouse, built in 1847 and still in use today. In 1869 the Baptist Female College moved its operation to the former home of Pony Express Founder William B. Waddell at the corner of 13th and South Streets. Elizabeth Aull Seminary was opened in the fall of 1860 and operated in a large building on Highland Avenue. Central Female College, later Central College for Women, began in 1868 and, in 1871, took over the old Masonic College on the grounds of the Battlefield. However, Lexington s educators, business leaders and ministers ha