De Smet Jesuit High School is a Catholic, college preparatory high school for boys located in Creve Coeur, Missouri, in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Louis. The school began classes in the fall of 1967. It was named in honor of the prominent Belgian Jesuit Great Plains missionary Pierre-Jean De Smet. Academics Honors courses are offered in math, English, foreign language, social studies, fine arts, and science, totaling 130 college credit hours. Honors students average a score of 31 on the ACT, and grades for honors courses are weighted when calculating grade-point average. The entire curriculum is college prep, but there is a full-service learning center to assist students needing extra help. All students lease a tablet PC, featuring a pen and multi-touch display as well as speech/audio recognition. Moodle is used to facilitate teacher communication with students and parents. De Smet Jesuit facilities include a 353-seat performing arts theater. Athletics De Smet Jesuit fields 53 teams in 19 sports, four of them non-cut. De Smet Jesuit competes in the large school division in the Missouri State High School Activities Association and has won 52 state championships: basketball five times (1973, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1999), soccer six times (1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 2011, 2019), golf five times (1983, 1985, 1986, 2003, 2021), hockey 14 times, tennis twice (1986, 1987), football twice (2005, 2019), baseball twice (2000, 2019), swimming and diving once (2002), cross country once (1983), and water polo once (2010). The school competes in the Metro Catholic Conference along with fellow private schools Chaminade College Preparatory, Christian Brothers College High School, St. Louis University High School, and St. John Vianney High School. De Smet Jesuit has won the MCC All-Sports Trophy 11 times in the 21-year existence of the conference. Basketball Three of De Smet Jesuit's five state basketball championships came under coach Rich Grawer, who went on to coach at University of Missouri and St. Louis University. His 1979 team went undefeated, 32–0. His teams also established the current Missouri state large-school record for winning streaks at 63 games. Football The Spartans won the 2005 Missouri Class 6 State Championship under head coach Patrick Mahoney and now have won the 2019 Missouri Class 6 State Championship under current head coach, former Dallas Cowboys and Minnesota Vikings and Class of 2008 alumnus Robert Steeples. Recent notable athletes at De Smet Jesuit include Ray Agnew, Robert Steeples, and KeVonn