Huntsville City Schools




Huntsville City Schools is the school district serving Huntsville, Alabama. As of the 2016–17 school year, the system had 24,083 students and employed 1,697 teachers. The district oversees 36 schools: 26 PreK-elementary schools, 11 middle schools, 6 high schools, 1 Virtual School, and 3 magnet schools.
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. However, after Casey Wardynski was appointed superintendent, he worked to erase the school system's debt and bring the budget into surplus.
It is partially within Madison County, and partially in Limestone County.
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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 prompted them to do so. In the 2013 fiscal year it paid Chris McRae, a former agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to run this program.

Elementary schools

  • Academy for Academics and Arts
  • Academy for Science and Foreign Language
  • Blossomwood Elementary
  • Chaffee Elementary
  • Challenger Elementary
  • Dawson Elementary
  • Farley Elementary
  • GoldSmith Shiffman Elementary
  • Hampton Cove Elementary
  • Hereford Elementary
  • Highlands Elementary
  • Jones Valley Elementary
  • Lakewood Elementary
  • Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary
  • McDonnell Elementary
  • Monte Sano Elementary
  • Montview
  • Morris Elementary
  • Mountain Gap Elementary
  • Providence Elementary
  • Ridgecrest Elementary
  • Rolling Hills Elementary
  • Weatherly Heights Elementary
  • Whitesburg Elementary
  • Williams Elementary

Middle schools

  • Academy for Academics and Arts
  • Academy for Science and Foreign Language
  • Challenger Middle
  • Chapman Middle
  • Hampton Cove Middle
  • Huntsville Middle
  • McNair Jr. High School
  • Mountain Gap Middle
  • Whitesburg Middle
  • Williams Middle

High schools

Others

  • Community Intensive Treatment for Youth
  • Huntsville Center for Technology

Failing schools

Statewide testing ranks the schools in Alabama. Those in the bottom six percent are listed as "failing." As of early 2018, three local schools were included in this category:

Former Schools

Board of education

  • District 1 - North Huntsville
  • District 2 - East Huntsville
  • District 3 - South Huntsville
  • District 4 - Downtown Huntsville
  • District 5 - West Huntsville

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, and J. O. Johnson High School. Renovations and consolidations for many other of the cities schools is also planned.