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The Montgomery Public Schools headquarters and Montgomery County Board of Education is located at 307 S. Decatur Street in Montgomery.

Montgomery Public Schools is a school district headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. The current Superintendent of Montgomery Public Schools is Melvin Brown. [1] The district serves the city of Montgomery and surrounding Montgomery County. It is the third largest district in Alabama, with 31,743 students enrolled. [2] The entire district is accredited by AdvancED and also has two International Baccalaureate programs: Macmillan International Academy (Elementary) and Johnnie Carr Middle School.

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The district serves most of Montgomery County, except for Pike Road (see Pike Road Schools) and, for PreKindergarten-Grade 8, Maxwell Air Force Base. [3] For high school Maxwell AFB residents are zoned to Montgomery Public Schools facilities. [4]

History

In the mid-1910s the county operated forty-seven schools for 3,020 White children. These schools were funded by the county and had only enough desks for about a third of the students. Combined, these schools had a value about half that of the county jail. [5]

In 2014 four Montgomery Public School high schools made it onto the U.S. News & World Report best high schools list, the most of any system in the state, with LAMP High School being named both the best high school in the state and among the top 20 high schools in the nation. Two other MPS schools (BTW Magnet High School and Brewbaker Technology Magnet High School) were named in the top ten best Alabama high schools list, and George Washington Carver High School was also recognized as a top high school on the list.

In 2017 the state took over a number of failing schools in the system. [6] In April 2017, it was reported that the principals of the 27 failing schools were to receive ten-percent salary increases and three-year contract extensions. [7]

On August 18, 2018, one of the three buildings that make up the campus of Booker T. Washington Magnet High School burned down. The 411 students from BTW were moved to the (currently closed) Hayneville Road Elementary School until May 2023 when the school moved into its new campus on Bell Road in August of that same the year.

Schools

High schools

Elementary schools

Failing schools

See also

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References

  1. ↑ "Melvin J. Brown named Montgomery Public Schools superintendent". WSFA. April 8, 2022. Retrieved December 16, 2022.
  2. ↑ Montgomery Public Schools System Facts, archived from the original on March 30, 2009, retrieved May 17, 2009
  3. ↑ "2020 Census - School District Reference Map: Montgomery County, AL" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau . Retrieved July 4, 2022. - Text listing: "Maxwell AFB School District" would mean the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) since that agency operates the on-base public schools.
  4. ↑ "Maxwell AFB Community". Department of Defense Education Activity. Retrieved July 4, 2022.
  5. ↑ Flynt, Wayne (February 5, 2016). Poor But Proud. University of Alabama Press. Retrieved July 27, 2017.
  6. ↑ Yawn, Andrew J. (January 4, 2017). "State plans takeover of MPS after failing schools list grows". Montgomery Advertiser . Retrieved April 5, 2017.
  7. ↑ Moon, Josh (April 5, 2017). "Montgomery's failing school principals to get raises, contract extensions". Alabama Political Reporter. Retrieved April 5, 2017.
  8. ↑ "Failing Alabama public schools: 75 on newest list, most are high schools". AL.COM. January 25, 2018. Retrieved January 26, 2018.
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