Birmingham City Schools is the public school district

School district

School districts are a form of special-purpose district which serves to operate the local public primary and secondary schools.-United States:...

 that serves the U.S. city of Birmingham

Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham is the largest city in Alabama. The city is the county seat of Jefferson County. According to the 2010 United States Census, Birmingham had a population of 212,237. The Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Area, in estimate by the U.S...

, Alabama

Alabama

Alabama is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama ranks 30th in total land area and ranks second in the size of its inland...

.

It is currently the fourth largest school system in Alabama behind Mobile County Public School System

Mobile County Public School System

Mobile County Public School System is a school district based in the Mobile County Public Schools Central Office Campus in an unincorporated area in Mobile County, Alabama United States....

, Jefferson County School System

Jefferson County Board of Education (Alabama)

The Jefferson County School System is the second-largest public school system in the U.S. State of Alabama and serves most of Jefferson County, Alabama...

, and Montgomery Public Schools

Montgomery Public Schools

Montgomery Public Schools is a school district headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. The district serves the city of Montgomery and surrounding Montgomery County...

. The current enrollment of the system is 30,500 students, but it has been continuously experiencing a significant drop in enrollment to surrounding school districts for nearly three decades. There are currently 55 schools in the system: 7 high schools, 12 middle schools, 31 elementary schools, and 6 K–8 secondary schools.

List of Birmingham City Schools

High Schools

• A. H. Parker High School
  A. H. Parker High School
  A.H. Parker High School is a public high school located in Birmingham, Alabama. The school educates over 1,000 students in grades 9 to 12 in the Birmingham City Schools district.As of 2010 the principal is Cedric Tatum.- History :A.H...
  
   (founded as Industrial High School)
• George Washington Carver High School
• Huffman High School
  Huffman High School
  Huffman High School is a secondary school located in Birmingham, Alabama.The school colors are orange and green. Approximately 97% of the students who attend the school are African American, 2% are Caucasian, and the small remainder are Hispanic or Asian. The school's athletic teams are known as...
  
  
• P.D. Jackson-Olin High School
  P.D. Jackson-Olin High School
  P. D. Jackson-Olin High School, founded in 1952 as Western Olin High School, renamed after principal Pierre Denson Jackson. Affectionately known as J.O., it is the largest high school in the Birmingham City Schools System, serving over 1,700 students from the Ensley area. The school is located at...
  
   (founded as Western Olin High School in 1952)
• Wenonah High School
  Wenonah High School
  Wenonah High School is a high school for grades 9 - 12 in Birmingham, Alabama. It is part of the Birmingham City Schools.-Previous Wenonah High School :...
  
  
• Woodlawn High School
• Ramsay High School
  Ramsay High School (Birmingham, Alabama)
  Ramsay Alternative High School is a magnet high school serving about 600 students in the Birmingham City Schools system. It is situated near 12th Avenue South and 20th Street. The school building's site, on a ridge just north of the crest of Red Mountain, near the Five Points South area...
  
  

K-8 Schools

• A.G. Gaston K-8 School
• Bertram A. Hudson K-8 School
• Booker T. Washington K-8 School
• John Herbert Phillips Academy
• John T. Whatley K-8 School
• William J. Christian K-8 School

Middle Schools

• Center Street Middle School
• Charles B. Glenn Middle School
• Daniel Payne Middle School
• Ernest F. Bush Middle School
• Green Acres Middle School
• Huffman Middle School
• L. M. Smith Middle School
• Martha Gaskins Middle School
• Ossie Ware Mitchell
• Richard Arrington, Jr. Middle School
• W. E. Putnam Middlle School
• Wilkerson Middle School

Elementary Schools

• Avondale Elementary School
• Barrett Elementary School
• Brunetta C. Hill Elementary School
• Central Park Elementary School
• Charles A. Brown Elementary School
• Clarence Going Elementary School
• EPIC Elementary School
• Gate City Elementary School
• Giddings S. Lewis Elementary School
• Glen Iris Elementary School
• Hemphill Elementary School
• J. B. Gibson Elementary School
• Jackson Elementary School
• Minor Elementary School
• Newton H. Price Elementary School
• North Birmingham Elementary School
• North Roebuck Elementary School
• Norwood Elementary School
• Powderly Elementary School
• Princeton Elementary School
• Riggins Alternative School (TOAR)
• Robert C. Arthur Elementary School
• Robert E. Lee Elementary School
• Robinson Elementary
• South Hampton Elementary School
• Sun Valley Elementary
• Wenonah Elementary School
• William Hooper Councill Elementary School
• Woodrow Wilson Elementary School
• Wylam Elementary School

Community Schools

• Community Education East
• Community Education South
• Parker Community School
• West End Community School
• Woodlawn Community School

Former high schools include

• Kennedy Alternative High School (closed)
• West End High School
  West End High School (Birmingham, Alabama)
  West End High School was a public high school in the Birmingham City Schools system of Birmingham, Alabama. The school's massive red-brick building, completed in 1930 was a collaboration between noted local architects Warren, Knight and Davis and David O...
  
   (closed in 2008)
• Hayes High School (closed in 2008)
• Banks High School
  L. Frazier Banks Middle School
  L. Frazier Banks Middle School was a former high school and middle school in the Birmingham Public School System in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. The school, which was named for former superintendent L...
  
   (first class graduated 1961, converted to a middle school, closed in 2007)
• Ensley High School
  Ensley High School
  Ensley High School, located in the Ensley neighborhood of Birmingham, Alabama , was founded in 1901 to serve the then-independent community of Ensley, which was centered around major plants operated by U.S. Steel and the American Cast Iron Pipe Company. It began with classes held at the Old Bush...
  
   (founded 1901, joined Birmingham system in 1910, merged with Jackson Olin in 2006)
• J. H. Phillips High School (founded as Birmingham High School in 1923, merged into Carver in 2001, became John Herbert Phillips Pre-K-8 Academy in 2007)
• Thomas School (founded in 1910, long vacant, newly renovated for a homeless mission)
• Ullman High School (founded as a grammar school, became a high school in 1937, now part of the University of Alabama at Birmingham
  University of Alabama at Birmingham
  The University of Alabama at Birmingham is a public university in Birmingham in the U.S. state of Alabama. Developing from an extension center established in 1936, the institution became an autonomous institution in 1969 and is today one of three institutions in the University of Alabama System...
  
   campus)
• Jones Valley High School (founded as a high school, then a K-8 school, then demolished after the 2008-2009 school year)

Board members

As of 2008 the school board is composed of nine members elected from nine geographical districts within the city of Birmingham.

As of 2007, the President is Carolyn Cobb (District 4) and the Vice President is Martha Wixon (District 1).

Other members include Howard Bayless

Howard Bayless

Howard J. Bayless III is an American healthcare professional and politician from Birmingham, Alabama. On October 9, 2007, he was elected to the Birmingham Board of Education, making him the first openly gay man elected to public office in the state of Alabama...

 (District 3). Seven of the nine members are female and six are African American

African American

African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...

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2011 Birmingham Board of Education Trustees:
District 1: Mr. Tyrone H. Belcher, Sr
District 2: Ms. Virginia S. Volker (Southside)
District 3: Mr. Brian Giattina (Avondale, East Lake?)
District 4: Mr. Edward Maddox - President
District 5: Mr. Emanuel B. Ford (JH Phillips, Parker HS, Ramsay)
District 6: Mr. W. J. Maye, Jr (Booker T. Washington)
District 7: Ms. Alana V. Edwards
District 8: Mrs. April M. Williams
District 9: /Phyllis F. Wyne