Located In Kansas City, Missouri, The Barstow School in a coeducational, college preparatory, independent day school serving students in preschool through twelfth grade . Since 1884 Barstow's mission has been the same: to promote sound scholarship and give symetrical development to mind, body and character. Today that translates into a school full of passionate, curious, thoughtful learners who engage in academic, athletic and artistic pursuits.