Trussville City Schools
Trussville City Schools | |
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Location | |
United States | |
District information | |
Type | Public |
Motto | “Learning Today, Leaders Tomorrow” |
Grades | K-12 |
Established | 2005 |
Superintendent | Dr. Patricia Neill |
Schools | 5 |
Budget | $59.0 million[1] |
NCES District ID | 0100013[2] |
Students and staff | |
Students | 5,000 |
Teachers | 350 |
Staff | 220 |
Athletic conference | 7A Region 3 |
Other information | |
Website | www |
Trussville City Schools (TCS) is the public school system for Trussville, Alabama, a suburb east of Birmingham. The Trussville City Schools school district serves approximately 5,000 students[3] and is consistently ranked among the top 10 districts in the state of Alabama. Its standardized test scores in Math, Science, and English Language Arts regularly land among the Top 5 or Top 10 in the state (among 138 school systems). The district also consistently earns high rankings from third-party entities including Niche[4] and School Digger.[5] The mascot is the Husky, and team colors are red and gray.
History
Trussville schools were part of the Jefferson County School System until 2005. In 2000, a financial crisis forced the county to reduce funding for teachers, and when the city of Trussville was not allowed to offset these reductions with its own funds, it began to explore the possibility of creating a separate system. In 2004, the city council passed a resolution that created the Trussville Board of Education, and in 2005, Trussville City Schools officially separated from the Jefferson County School System.[6]
Suzanne Freeman was the district's first superintendent, serving from the district's inception until 2012. She was succeeded by Dr. Patricia Neill, who is still in that role.[7]
Student profile
Trussville City Schools serve all students living within Trussville city limits. The student population is 86% white, 10% African-American, 2% Asian-American, 1% Hispanic, and 1% multiracial. Approximately 10% of students qualify for free or reduced price lunch. Less than 1% are English Language Learners (ELL), and about 8% have Individualized Education Programs (IEPs).[8]
Trussville City Schools have a dropout rate that is less than one half of one percent. Approximately 93% of Trussville students meet or exceed state proficiency standards in mathematics, and about 95% meet or exceed standards in reading.[9]
Schools
The Trussville City School District includes five schools: a 7A high school, a large middle school, and three elementary schools.
Hewitt-Trussville High School
Hewitt-Trussville High School (HTHS) is the only high school in the district and serves all students in grades 9 to 12. It surpassed 1,600 students during the 2021-2022 School Year, and with 97 faculty members, had a student-teacher ratio of approximately 15:1.[10] HTHS athletic teams compete in AHSAA Class 7A Region 3 Athletics as designated by the Alabama High School Athletic Association (AHSAA).
Completed in 2008, the HTHS campus is located on a 127-acre site on Husky Parkway between Trussville Clay Road and Deerfoot Parkway, across I-59 from Hewitt-Trussville Middle School. The school is able to accommodate about 1,600 students, with room to grow to 2,400 students in the future. The school was designed by Davis Architects and encompasses 285,000-square feet. Its design includes white columns and a clock tower, and at a final cost of $70 million, the school was the most expensive high school ever built in Alabama upon its opening in October 2008.[11]
Hewitt-Trussville Middle School
Hewitt-Trussville Middle School (HTMS) serves all students in grades 6 to 8. Its student enrollment for the 2021-2022 School Year was approximately 1,300 students with nearly 75 faculty and staff members.[12] All three Trussville elementary schools serve as feeder schools for Hewitt-Trussville Middle School.
HTMS was established in 1984 on the former campus of Hewitt-Trussville High School in the Cahaba Homestead Project. In 2008, it moved to its current campus on Trussville Clay Road, across Interstate 59 from the new Hewitt-Trussville High School.
Cahaba Elementary School
Cahaba Elementary School welcomed its first students for the 2016–2017 school year. It is located on the Mall in the Cahaba Project and occupies the renovated campus of the former Hewitt-Trussville Middle and High Schools. The historic campus was renovated at a cost of approximately $9 million and has the capacity to house up to 500 students.[13]
Magnolia Elementary School
Magnolia Elementary School was scheduled to open for the 2016–2017 school year, but construction delays pushed its opening back by a month and a half.[14] Magnolia serves most of the students in the southern part of the city.[15] A new construction with a budget of $14 million, Magnolia is large enough to house up to 400 students. As of the 2021-2022 School Year, Magnolia Elementary was growing and served a student population of approximately 375.[16]
Paine Elementary School
Paine Elementary School is situated on U.S. Highway 11 on a tract of land donated by Amerex Corporation founders Ned and Goldie Paine. It is the largest elementary school in Trussville, with more than 1,300 students. The sprawling campus features a north and south side, each having its own gymnasium and own cafeteria. Paine previously comprised two distinct schools on the same campus: Paine Primary School, which enrolled grades K-2, and Paine Intermediate School, which enrolled grades 3 to 5. Starting with the 2016–2017 academic year, the two schools were consolidated as one.[17][18][19][15]
References
- ^ https://www.trussvillecityschools.com/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid=3511&dataid=9456&FileName=FY2022%20BUDGET%20HANDOUT.pdf[bare URL PDF]
- ^ "Search for Public School Districts – District Detail for Trussville City". National Center for Education Statistics. Institute of Education Sciences. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
- ^ "Trussville City School District - Trussville, Alabama - SchoolDigger.com". SchoolDigger. Retrieved 2015-09-21.
- ^ "Explore Trussville City Schools".
- ^ "Alabama District Rankings".
- ^ "voicesfromtheschoolhouse - Brief history of education in Trussville, Alabama". voicesfromtheschoolhouse.wikispaces.com. Retrieved 2015-08-27.
- ^ "Trussville school board hires new superintendent". 6 November 2012. Retrieved 2015-08-27.
- ^ "Trussville City - AL - Student Life - Niche". K-12 School Rankings and Reviews at Niche.com. Retrieved 2015-09-15.
- ^ "Academics - Trussville City Schools - Niche".
- ^ = 2015-09-21 "Hewitt-Trussville High School".
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- ^ "Hewitt-Trussville Middle School". SchoolDigger. Retrieved 2015-09-21.
- ^ "Trussville looking at plan for 2 new schools that would preserve historic school building". 7 May 2013. Retrieved 2016-08-06.
- ^ Posey, Melanie. "New Trussville Elementary School building not yet complete". Retrieved 2016-08-06.
- ^ a b "New Trussville elementary schools officially named".
- ^ "Two Schools to Transform Trussville's Landscape". www.constructionequipguide.com. Retrieved 2016-08-06.
- ^ "Paine Primary School -". Paine Primary School.
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- ^ "Paine Intermediate School -". Paine Intermediate School. Retrieved 2015-09-21.
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