Huntsville City Schools

Huntsville City Schools
Location
200 White Street
Huntsville, AL 35801

United States
Coordinates 34°44′02″N 86°34′41″W / 34.734°N 86.578°W / 34.734; -86.578Coordinates: 34°44′02″N 86°34′41″W / 34.734°N 86.578°W / 34.734; -86.578
District information
Grades PK-12
Superintendent E. Casey Wardynski, Ph.D.[1]
Asst. Superintendent(s) Barbara J. Cooper, Ph.D.
Schools 40
District ID 0101800[2]
Students and staff
Students 23,374
Teachers 1,738
Staff 1,114
Student-teacher ratio 13.45
Other information
Website huntsvillecityschools.org

Huntsville City Schools is the school district serving Huntsville, Alabama. As of the 2010-11 school year, the system had 23,374 students and employed 1,738 teachers. The district oversees 40 schools: 21 elementary schools, 7 middle schools, 5 PreK-8 schools, 5 high schools, along with 3 special education centers, and 4 magnet schools.[3] The school system finished the 2010 fiscal year with a debt of nearly $20 million the largest of any school system in Alabama by a significant margin.[4] However, after Dr. Casey Wardynski was appointed superintendent, he worked to erase the school system's debt and bring the budget into surplus.

History

In 2014 officials from the school district began monitoring social media activity from students. The officials stated that a phone call from the National Security Agency (NSA) prompted them to do so.[5] In the 2013 fiscal year it paid Chris McRae, a former agent of the Federal Bureau of Intelligence (FBI), to run this program.[6]

Elementary schools

  • Academy for Academics and Arts (magnet)
  • Academy for Science and Foreign Language (magnet)
  • Blossomwood Elementary
  • Chaffee Elementary
  • Challenger Elementary
  • Chapman P-8
  • Farley Elementary
  • GoldSmith Shiffman Elementary
  • Hampton Cove Elementary
  • Highlands Elementary

  • Jones Valley Elementary
  • Lakewood Elementary
  • Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary
  • McDonnell Elementary
  • Monte Sano Elementary
  • Montview P-6
  • Morris Elementary
  • Mountain Gap P-8
  • Providence Elementary

  • Ridgecrest Elementary
  • Rolling Hills Elementary
  • University Place Elementary
  • Weatherly Heights Elementary
  • West Mastin Lake Elementary
  • Whitesburg P-8
  • Williams Elementary

Middle schools

  • Academy for Academics and Arts (magnet)
  • Academy for Science and Foreign Language (magnet)
  • Challenger Middle
  • Chapman P-8

  • Hampton Cove Middle
  • Huntsville Middle
  • McNair Jr. High School
  • Mountain Gap P-8

  • Westlawn Middle
  • Whitesburg P-8
  • Williams Middle

High schools

Others

Board of Education


Revitalization

Currently, a major overhaul of the cities school facilities and curriculum is occurring. In 2012, a new digital curriculum was issued, giving all students laptops and increasing digital usage for teaching. This was done to take advantage of the growing use of computers and to help give students easy access to information and organization. In 2011, a $194 million five year capital plan was granted by the Alabama Board of Education to the Huntsville City School System. With this, the city plans to renovate and construct new facilities for many of its aging campuses. These include a new Blossomwood Elementary School, New Freshman Academy for Huntsville High School, construction of a new building and campus for the combination of Lee High School and New Century Technological School, construction of a new Whitesburg Elementary, Virgil I. Grissom High School (the cities largest student body), and J. O. Johnson High School. Renovations and consolidations for many other of the cities schools is also planned.

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