Bluff Park Elementary School
| Bluff Park Elementary School | |
| |
| Established | 1924 |
|---|---|
| School type | |
| District | Hoover |
| Grades | K-5 |
| Principal | Ami Weems |
| Enrollment | 660 (2017) |
| Colors | Green & yellow |
| Mascot | Panthers |
| Location | 569 Park Avenue Hoover |
| Website | oovercityschools.net |
Bluff Park Elementary School is a school for grades K-5 in the Hoover City Schools system, located at 569 Park Avenue in Hoover's Bluff Park neighborhood.
The school traces its history to the founding of the Summit School on the nearby crest of Shades Mountain in 1898. Jefferson County Schools constructed a new 2-room Bluff Park School near the site of the present school in 1924.
Several additions to the original building were made over the years, including a major expansion in 1998. In 2003 that facility was shuttered and a new school building was constructed adjacent to the original. The former school building was leased to the Hoover Historical Society and Artists on the Bluff as a community cultural center until 2017, when the Hoover Board of Education determined that it could not bear the cost of updating the facility to current building codes and began planning to demolish it.
Principals
- Helen Stephens, 1961
- Terry Lamar, 2015-2018
- Ami Weems, 2018–
References
- Anderson, Jon (September 18, 2017) "Artists must vacate former Bluff Park Elementary School" Hoover Sun
External links
- Bluff Park Elementary School at hoovercityschools.net