Woodlawn High School
Woodlawn High School is a large magnet high school serving about 1,300 students in the Birmingham Public School System. It was established in 1910 at the time that Woodlawn was being annexed into Birmingham. The present building on 1st Avenue North was constructed in 1922 for an initial enrollment of 700.
A large mural in the high school's auditorium was painted between 1934 and 1939 by Sidney van Sheck and Richard Blauvelt Coe for the Works Progress Administration. A campaign is underway to raise $190,000 for restoration of the mural.
The Warblers are a men's chorus that started as a singing club at Woodlawn, active from 1929 to 1977. Most current Warblers members are alumni of the Woodlawn club.
In 1956 the Woodlawn debate team, coached by Rose B. Johnson, won the inaugural Barkley Forum, a prestigious debate tournament at Emory University in Atlanta.
Notable alumni
- Bobby Bowden (1948), football coach
- Miriam Rogers Fowler (1957), BMA curator
- Glenn Garett (1970), musician
- Mike Hale (1985), Jefferson County sheriff
- Oliver Robinson (1957)