Fultondale High School is a public high school located in Birmingham, Alabama. 474 students attended the school in 2005. It is part of the Jefferson County School System.
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It was formed in the 1960s as New Castle High School and the mascot was the Knights until 1972 when the school was renamed Fultondale High School. From their website:
Where did it all begin? Before there was a Fultondale High School, students who lived in Fultondale and were in grades 1-9 attended Fultondale Elementary School. Students in grades 10-12 attended Gardendale High School. In 1965 a new school was built at the present Fultondale site and was named New Castle High School. In 1967 the vocational building was added. In the fall of 1972, students from Fultondale Elementary and the Smithfield area merged with the students at New Castle High School. The Jefferson County Board of Education then changed the school's name to Fultondale High School.
At the time of the merging of schools, Jack Hazelrig was the principal at Fultondale Elementary. He was appointed by the board to be the very first principal of Fultondale High School. The school housed grades 7-12 in it's first year but was changed to an 8-12 school the next year. Fultondale High saw it's first graduating class with the class of 1973 - there were 99 seniors. The back gym and band room building was built in 1976, and graduation was in the back gym on a concrete floor. Students and guests sat in folding chairs because bleachers had not yet been installed. As the seniors walked across that concrete floor on that hot day in May, 1976 they became the first of many senior classes to march across the FHS gym to celebrate the completion of 12 long years of schooling.
When Fultondale and New Castle merged, Fultondale Elementary's mascot was a wildcat and blue and white were their school colors. It was decided that the new Fultondale High would also be known as the wildcats. Since neighboring Mortimer Jordan also had blue and white as their school colors, Principal Hazelrig told Lonnie Haley, the first football coach, to use blue and white but to include a wildcard color. Coach
Haley chose orange and the classic "Blue and Orange" of FHS was born. Our first football team competed in the 3A division. In 1973 Tommy Loden became the highly recognizable "Voice of the Wildcats" and could be found behind the mic on football Friday nights for the next 27 years. Fultondale has continued to uphold their rich heritage in sporting competition and display that never ending Wildcat Pride in many sports including football, basketball, baseball, volleyball, wrestling, tennis, golf and others.
The band is called the Rainbow Reignment.