Wenonah Elementary School
| Wenonah Elementary School | |
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Birmingham City Schools |
| Years | ?–2011 |
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| Location | 3008 Wilson Road Southwest, (map) Wenonah |
| Grades | K-5 |
| Principal | Barbara Huntley |
| Enrollment | 316 (2008) |
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| Website | birmingham.schoolinsites.com |
After Wenonah School was destroyed by fire in 1946, the Tennessee Coal & Iron (TCI) Company donated a large parcel of land consisting of approximately 16 acres (6.5 ha) to be used to construct a new elementary and high school. Construction began in late 1946.
In the fall of 1947, students in grades 8 - 12 from Galilee Baptist, Mt. Olive and Bryant Chapel Baptist Churches and Riley Elementary School began classes in the downstairs classrooms of Wenonah Elementary School while construction was being completed upstairs and on the high school.
In January 1948, the grades 9 - 12 students at the elementary school, and surrounding Jefferson County moved to the new high school. Grades 1 - 8 from surrounding schools and churches were moved to the newly completed elementary school.
In 1973, Wenonah Elementary School was annexed into the city of Birmingham. Administration of Wenonah was taken over by the Birmingham Board of Education from the Jefferson County School System.
Wenonah Elementary School was an elementary school in the Birmingham City Schools system located at 3008 Wilson Road Southwest near Lawson State Community College in the Wenonah neighborhood. The last principal was Barbara Young Huntley.
Under a school consolidation plan proposed by acting superintendent Barbara Allen and approved by the Board, Wenonah Elementary closed in the Summer of 2011 with students transferring to Jones Valley and Oxmoor Valley K-8 Schools. [1]
In May 2012, the Wenonah Elementary School property was sold to Lawson State Community College for $500,000.