Shania Burl just wants to go back to her old school.

She is a senior at historic Sumner High School, located in the Ville neighborhood. The school has been closed since May 16, when a powerful EF3 tornado ripped through St. Louis and left devastation in its path.

About 340 Sumner and Fresh Start students have been temporarily relocated to Stevens Middle School in the Vandeventer neighborhood, but she said it’s just not the same.

“This is horrible,” Burl said. “The school is too little. It’s too many kids.” Burl is used to the grand hallways and high ceilings of Sumner — a school that housed over 1,000 students in the 1990s.

“I've been praying every day because [Stevens] is not it. It’s not enough space,” Burl said.

Standing on the sidewalk in front of Sumner, it’s hard to understand t

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