Huntsville City Schools is the school district

School district

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Huntsville, Alabama

Huntsville is a city located primarily in Madison County in the central part of the far northern region of the U.S. state of Alabama. Huntsville is the county seat of Madison County. The city extends west into neighboring Limestone County. Huntsville's population was 180,105 as of the 2010 Census....

. As of the 2007-08 school year, the system had 22,839 students and employed 1,933 teachers. The district oversees 53 schools: 23 elementary school

Elementary school

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Middle school

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Kindergarten

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Eighth grade

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High school

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Magnet school

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The school system finished the 2010 fiscal year with a debt of nearly $20 million the largest of any school system in Alabama by a significant margin.

Elementary schools

• Academy for Academics and Arts (magnet)
• Academy for Science and Foreign Language (magnet)
• Blossomwood Elementary
• Chaffee Elementary
• Challenger Elementary
• Chapman Elementary
• Farley Elementary
• GoldSmith Shiffman Elementary
• Hampton Cove Elementary
• Highlands Elementary

• Jones Valley Elementary
• Lakewood Elementary
• Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary
• McDonnell Elementary
• Monte Sano Elementary
• Montview Elementary
• Morris Elementary
• Mountain Gap Elementary
• Providence K-8

• Ridgecrest Elementary
• Rolling Hills Elementary
• University Place Elementary
• Weatherly Heights Elementary
• West Huntsville Elementary
• West Mastin Lake Elementary
• Whitesburg Elementary
• Williams K-8

Middle schools

• Academy for Academics and Arts (magnet)
• Academy for Science and Foreign Language (magnet)
• Challenger Middle
• Chapman Middle
• Davis Hills Middle

• Ed White Middle
  Ed White Middle School
  Ed White Middle School is a public 6th through 8th grade middle school in Huntsville, Alabama. It is located at 4800 Sparkman Drive in northwest Huntsville....
  
  
• Hampton Cove Middle
• Huntsville Middle
• Mountain Gap Middle
• Providence K-8

• WestLawn Middle
• Whitesburg Middle
• Williams K-8

High schools

• S. R. Butler High School
  S. R. Butler High School
  S. R. Butler High School is a four-year public high school that serves students in grades 9-12 from Huntsville, in Madison County, Alabama in the United States, as a part of Huntsville City Schools.- General information :...
  
  
• Columbia High School
• Virgil I. Grissom High School
• Huntsville High School
  Huntsville High School
  Huntsville High School is a public high school in Huntsville, Alabama, United States.-History:Due to growth in Huntsville in the 1920s, Huntsville High moved to a location on Randolph Avenue and White Street in 1927. This building served the high school until 1954, when a new building opened on...
  
  

• J.O. Johnson High School
  J.O. Johnson High School
  James Oliver Johnson High School, more commonly referred to as J.O. Johnson High School or J.O.J., is a public high school located in the northwest area of Huntsville, Alabama. The school serves grades 9 through 12...
  
  
• Lee High School
  Lee High School (Huntsville, Alabama)
  Lee High School is a four-year public high school that serves students in grades 9-12 from Huntsville, in Madison County, Alabama in the United States, as a part of Huntsville City Schools.-History:...
  
  
• New Century Technology High School

Others

• Community Intensive Treatment for Youth (C.I.T.Y.) (alternative school
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• Huntsville Center for Technology (vocational school)
• Seldon Center (alternative school
  Alternative school
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External links

• Huntsville City Schools website