Beaumont was the ninth high school to be open in the St. Louis Public School System in September of 1926. The cost to build the school was the most of the previous eight at $2,296,870 including the site. It contained 95 rooms, besides 30 ancillary rooms, and an auditorium seating 2,250 people. Its site was 6351/2 feet by 672 feet.

 

Beaumont High School inherited the legacy of twenty years of rich experience of the Yeatman High School. When it opened, the entire student body of the Yeatman High School went to it, together with the ninth grade of the Central High School. Those two bodies of students were fused into one homogeneous group destined to build a new spiritual superstructure upon the foundation provided by former experiences.

 

The first Principal was Mr. Wilbur N. Fuller and Mr. Albert H. Huntington was the assistant principal.