A. G. Gaston School

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A. G. Gaston K-8 School
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Years 1940s2011
Location 5400 Oakwood Street, (map)
Roosevelt City
Grades K-8
Principal Tavis Hardin-Sloan
Enrollment 335 (2008)
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Website birmingham.schoolinsites.com

A. G. Gaston K-8 School, originally Roosevelt Cairo Junior High, is a school in the Birmingham City Schools system located at 5400 Oakwood Street in the Roosevelt City neighborhood of the Brownville community. The principal is Tavis Hardin-Sloan.

The school was built in the 1940s as part of the Jefferson County Schools system and was renamed to honor African-American entrepreneur A. G. Gaston. Roosevelt City was annexed into the Birmingham in the late 1980s.

Under the most recent school consolidation plan proposed by acting superintendent Barbara Allen and approved by the Board of Education, A. G. Gaston School would close in the summer of 2011, with students transferring to Wylam Elementary School and a newly-built Jones Valley K-8 School. [1]

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