The Ladue School District is seeking to acquire Westminster Christian Academy’s Creve Coeur campus for $18 million. The school district is eyeing 30 acres at 10900 Ladue Road for future expansion, according to Director of Communications Susan Dielmann.

The Ladue School District’s board of education passed a resolution this week to seek a $32 million bond referendum in April. If voters approve the referendum, $18 million would go toward property acquisition and $14 million would go toward building a replacement early childhood center on the Creve Couer property. “The impetus is our growing enrollment,” Dielmann said. “We’re at almost 3,800 students now, and we’ve been growing at an average of 100 students annually for the past six years.”

Westminster Christian Academy, an independent college prep school with grades seven through 12, is looking to sell the property on Ladue Road and build a new $50 million campus on 70 acres at Maryville Centre Drive and South Outer Forty Road in Town & Country. In an e-mail sent to parents Wednesday, Westminster Head of School Jim Marsh said selling the property will provide a crucial piece of the school’s capital campaign to start construction on the new Town & Country campus. As part of the sale to the Ladue School District, Westminster would lease back the Creve Coeur property from the Ladue School District through June 2012.
Marsh declined to comment about the potential sale of the property and referred inquiries to the school district.

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