Oakville High School

Oakville High School (formerly Oakville Senior High School) is a public comprehensive high school in Oakville, Missouri that is part of the Mehlville R-9 School District. History The school was developed in the 1970s. At that time the district had high enrollments and severe overcrowding at Mehlville High School, mainly due to a major population increase in the Oakville area. The temporary solution was establishing a ninth-grade center; it was housed at the district's Jefferson Barracks Building near the Jefferson Barracks Military Post, and began offering classes in September 1970. A second four-year high school was planned to alleviate the overcrowding so, the ninth-grade center would could move to a new building in Oakville in the fall of 1973 and be formally established as Oakville Senior High School. Two weeks before the beginning of the 1973-74 school year electric panels were uncovered and the gym floor was not fully installed. The building opened on time, not fully finished.