The Barstow School provides the Kansas City region’s premier K-12 college preparatory education. Our innovative, inclusive and globally connected learning environment cultivates the potential in every student through differentiated instruction and dedicated faculty mentorship. Students are part of a diverse community "promotes sound scholarship and gives symmetrical development to mind, body and character," our mission since 1884.

Barstow’s STEAM program uses science, technology, engineering, the arts and math as conduits to 21st century skills such critical thinking, collaboration and communication. STEAM principles are applied in daily learning as early as preschool. Rigorous academics are combined with robust service, athletic, arts and global travel opportunities. Barstow students are participants, not spectators.

From their earliest explorations through commencement, Barstow invests in the whole student and prepares them for leadership in a rapidly changing world.