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The Homewood City School District is the school system of the Birmingham, Alabama, suburb of Homewood. Homewood City Schools serve 3,907 students and employ 553 faculty and staff. [ 2 ] The district includes three elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school.
It is the fourth-largest school system in Alabama behind Mobile County Public School System, Jefferson County School System, and Montgomery Public Schools. It currently enrolls approximately 25,000 students across 42 schools. [2] Birmingham City Schools serve a student population that is approximately 95% African-American, 4% Hispanic, and 1% ...
The state began to require each county to have a high school, and by 1918 all but ten counties met the obligation. [15] By the mid-1930s, two-thirds of the children of landowners reached high school, but only a third of the children of white sharecroppers. [16] In an effort to reduce illiteracy the state created "Opportunity Schools" in 1920.
The school was located at Samford University, with the dance program being located at UAB, but moved to Birmingham–Southern College in 1974. While there it was consolidated into five arts programs and a core academic program, staffed in part by the Birmingham City Schools. The school moved to its own temporary downtown Birmingham campus in 1976.
An Ofsted inspection in January 2016 stated that the school 'Requires Improvement'. [3] Previously a community school administered by Birmingham City Council, in September 2019 Balaam Wood School converted to academy status and was renamed King Edward VI Balaam Wood Academy. The school is now sponsored by the King Edward VI Academy Trust.
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Altamont's main campus is located on 28 acres (11 ha) on the crest of Red Mountain just south of downtown Birmingham. The main school building houses forty classrooms, two science wings, a fine arts center, a student center, an art gallery and sculpture garden, a computer lab, a 20,000-volume library, and special studios for chorus, art, photography, and orchestra.
Indian Springs School's campus is on 350 acres (140 ha) in northern Shelby County, 15 miles (24 km) south of downtown Birmingham. Through the 1970s, the school was remote and surrounded by the woodlands of its campus, in addition to Oak Mountain State Park abutting its southern boundary. In the late 1970s, facing increasing debts and possible ...