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Huntsville City Schools is the school district serving Huntsville, Alabama. [4] As of the 2016–17 school year, the system had 24,083 students and employed 1,697 teachers. [ 5 ] The district oversees 36 schools: 21 PreK - elementary schools , 6 middle schools , 7 high schools , and 2 magnet schools .
Huntsville High School is an American public high school in Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama in the Huntsville metropolitan area. It is part of the Huntsville City Schools district with approximately 1,850 students currently enrolled in grades 9–12.
Its primary feeder schools were the Academy for Science and Foreign Language, Edward H. White Middle School, and Davis Hills Middle School. In August 2012, the Huntsville City Schools announced plans to build a new school, and retain the name JO Johnson. In 2013, it was announced the school would receive a new building, but retain its name in 2016.
The school operated as a junior high school to allow for the eventual closure of nearby Rison High School and changed its status in tandem with the opening of Chapman Junior High School (later, Chapman Middle School). In 1986, the Huntsville City Schools created the Lee Arts and Pre-Engineering Magnet programs.
The city then bought it and made it the Huntsville Junior High School. Now it is a parking lot for the Annie Merts Center for school administration. [ 4 ] The first Butler High School was built in 1954 and was originally intended to also serve as a fallout shelter for the surrounding area in the case of a nuclear attack.
The school contains a magnet program called the College Academy which works alongside The University of Alabama in Huntsville to provide students with college credit throughout high school. The mascot of Jemison High School is the Jaguars. The school replaces J.O. Johnson High School, which closed its doors at the end of the 2015–16 school year.
Madison County Schools is a school district in Madison County, Alabama, United States, headquartered in an unincorporated area, bordering Huntsville. [1]Communities in the district include: Gurley, Harvest, Hazel Green, Meridianville, Moores Mill, New Hope, Owens Cross Roads, New Market, Redstone Arsenal, and Triana.
Rison School, named for mill general manager Archie L. Rison, was built in 1921. The school stood on the corner of Dallas Street and Oakwood Avenue, and grew through the years to serve grades 1–12. It became a part of the Huntsville City Schools system and operated as an elementary and middle school until 1967. [7]