Dupuy Elementary School

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Dupuy Elementary School
Active 1956–1981
School type Public
District Birmingham City Schools
Grades 1-8
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Location 4500 14th Avenue North, {{{map}}}
Birmingham

Anna Dupuy Elementary School (originally North Woodlawn Elementary School, now the Dupuy Administrative Building) is a former Birmingham City Schools elementary school at 4500 14th Avenue North in the Kingston neighborhood.

The 12-room school serving 400 students in grades 1-6 was constructed in 1956 with $176,568 from the 1953 Birmingham bond issue. Superintendent of schools L. Frazier Banks chose to dedicate the new school in honor of Anna Dupuy, a past-president of the Birmingham Board of Education. A second phase of construction, completed in 1957 by F. R. Hoar & Son to designs by architect Evan Terry, added five classrooms and a gymnasium.

New sidewalks and bikeways were built in front of the school from 45th Street to 46th Street in 1979.

In December 1995 Dupuy's principal Samuetta H. Drew was honored by a resolution entered into the Congressional Record by Earl Hilliard, recognizing the school's implementation of the "ABC's of Etiquette Training Program".

The school was repurposed as the Dupuy Alternative School with enrollment in grades K-8 dropping into the 50s. The school's test scores placed it in the "priority" status before it was closed and converted into a satellite administrative office for Birmingham City Schools.

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