McAdory High School

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Address
McAdory High School
4800 High School Road McCalla, Alabama, 35111 USA
Coordinates	33°19′49″N 87°00′06″W / 33.33028, -87.00167Coordinates: 33°19′49″N 87°00′06″W / 33.33028, -87.00167
Information
School district	Jefferson County Board of Education
Principal	Samuel Staggs
Vice principal	Brent Shaw, Tanja Tyrus
Students	1492^[1]
Type	public high school
Grades	6 – 12
Mascot	Yellowjacket
Opened	1920
Homepage	McAdory High School

McAdory High School is a public high school in McCalla, Alabama, USA. It is operated by the Jefferson County Board of Education. The school is named for the McAdory family that owned the land on which the school was built.

1 Overview
2 History
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Overview

McAdory Middle School (grades 6-8) and McAdory High School (grades 9-12) share the same campus. The student-teacher ratio is 19:1, above the state average of 13:1.^[1]

[edit] History

In 1916, land from the McAdory family was purchased and a high school was built, opening its doors in 1920. In the early morning hours of Friday April 5, 1929, a fire destroyed most of the school. Its four-room annex was undamaged and classes continued there for the school's 320 students. The first section of a replacement building opened in 1929, the remaining sections in 1931. On Sunday December 18, 1938 another fire destroyed this building. A replacement school in the Art-Deco style was built as a WPA project. It opened in 1941 and is the building used today.^[2] In 2006, a building renovation was started.^[3]