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[[Image:Tuggle Institute.jpg|right|thumb|225px|Original Tuggle Institute as seen in a 1906 book]]
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|image          =[[Image:Tuggle Institute.jpg|175px]]
|established    =1903
|closed          =present
|address  =412 [[12th Court North]]
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|neighborhood =Wahouma
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|cluster      =IV
|grades        =K-5
|principal      =Johnnie Finkley
|enrollment    =322
|enroll-year    =2008
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'''Carrie A. Tuggle Elementary School''' is a public K-5 elementary school located at 412 [[12th Court North]] in the [[Enon Ridge]] neighborhood and part of the [[Birmingham City Schools]] system. The principal is [[Johnnie Finkley]].
'''Carrie A. Tuggle Elementary School''' is a public K-5 elementary school located at 412 [[12th Court North]] in the [[Enon Ridge]] neighborhood and part of the [[Birmingham City Schools]] system. The principal is [[Johnnie Finkley]].


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In the [[1912]]-[[1913|13]] school year the institute had 146 students, of which 4 were in secondary grades and 120 were boarding at the school. Early industrial programs taught to upper-grade students included printing, woodworking and sewing. At that time the school operated under debt. The school building, judged by inspectors to be overcrowded and in poor repair, were mortgaged to make up the deficit between operating expenses and the approximately $1,800 in income from tuition and donations.
In the [[1912]]-[[1913|13]] school year the institute had 146 students, of which 4 were in secondary grades and 120 were boarding at the school. Early industrial programs taught to upper-grade students included printing, woodworking and sewing. At that time the school operated under debt. The school building, judged by inspectors to be overcrowded and in poor repair, were mortgaged to make up the deficit between operating expenses and the approximately $1,800 in income from tuition and donations.


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The school's finances improved with new white sources of support. [[Hugo Black]] was enlisted to join the advisory board and [[Louis Pizitz]] was a member of the school's building committee. On Lincoln's Birthday in [[1920]] the institute celebrated the completion of a new building. [[James Dillard]], pastor of [[South Side Baptist Church]] spoke, followed by [[R. A. Blount]], grand chancellor of the [[Colored Pythians]] and [[W. W. Green]], exalted ruler of the [[Colored Elks]].
The school's finances improved with new white sources of support. [[Hugo Black]] was enlisted to join the advisory board and [[Louis Pizitz]] was a member of the school's building committee. On Lincoln's Birthday in [[1920]] the institute celebrated the completion of a new building. [[James Dillard]], pastor of [[South Side Baptist Church]] spoke, followed by [[R. A. Blount]], grand chancellor of the [[Colored Pythians]] and [[W. W. Green]], exalted ruler of the [[Colored Elks]].


Revision as of 21:10, 28 February 2008

Tuggle Elementary School
Tuggle Institute.jpg
BCS small logo.png Birmingham City Schools
Years 1903–present
Location 412 12th Court North, (map)
Wahouma
Grades K-5
Principal Johnnie Finkley
Enrollment 322 (2008)
Colors
Mascot
Website birmingham.schoolinsites.com

Carrie A. Tuggle Elementary School is a public K-5 elementary school located at 412 12th Court North in the Enon Ridge neighborhood and part of the Birmingham City Schools system. The principal is Johnnie Finkley.

It was founded as the Tuggle Institute, a privately-run charity by social worker Carrie Tuggle on September 3, 1903. She wanted to provide safe housing and a good education to orphaned African-American children. The school was supported by the Court of Calanthe and Daughters of the Rising Sun secret women's organizations as well as by tuition and with funds from its trustees.

Around 1905 Tuggle hired Sam Foster to start a school band. It was there that he trained trumpeter Fess Whatley and taught him how to read music. Whatley later took over the music program at Tuggle before being hired as a printmaking teacher at Industrial High School in 1917.

In the 1912-13 school year the institute had 146 students, of which 4 were in secondary grades and 120 were boarding at the school. Early industrial programs taught to upper-grade students included printing, woodworking and sewing. At that time the school operated under debt. The school building, judged by inspectors to be overcrowded and in poor repair, were mortgaged to make up the deficit between operating expenses and the approximately $1,800 in income from tuition and donations.

The school's finances improved with new white sources of support. Hugo Black was enlisted to join the advisory board and Louis Pizitz was a member of the school's building committee. On Lincoln's Birthday in 1920 the institute celebrated the completion of a new building. James Dillard, pastor of South Side Baptist Church spoke, followed by R. A. Blount, grand chancellor of the Colored Pythians and W. W. Green, exalted ruler of the Colored Elks.

The Institute became associated with the Birmingham City Schools in 1926. The Board of Education bought the 15-acre site with its 13 structures in 1934 and renamed it Enon Ridge School. Two years later the Board honored Tuggle by renaming it "Tuggle Elementary School".

The school was rebuilt as a new, modern elementary school in 1952, with a major addition in 1957. In 2007 Tuggle Elementary was placed on a list of schools facing possible closure in light of the system's declining student enrollment and shaky finances. It did not appear on a revised list distributed in January 2008.

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