Edgewood Elementary School
Edgewood Elementary School is one of three elementary schools in the Homewood School System serving grades kindergarten through fifth, located at 901 College Avenue. It primarily serves households in the Edgewood neighborhood. Enrollment in 2005 was approximately 500 students. The principal is Patricia Simpson. The school is demonstration site for Alabama's Reading Initiative.
History
In 1923, the Edgewood Town Council contracted to buy six acres of land off of Broadway for a new elementary school. Five of the acres were deeded to the Jefferson County Board of Education in 1924 and construction of a two-room schoolhouse began. It was completed in April 1926, with the town council making several appropriations to help get it ready. The school opened to students that September.
Accomplishments
- United States Department of Education "Blue Ribbon School"; 1993-94.
Principals
- Mrs. R. E. Mallett (1926–1930)
- Mrs. Cecil A. Carlisle (1930–1950)
- Joseph Prickett (1952–1956)
- Estelle McNutt (?–1968)
- Helen Fuller (1968–1970)
- Edna Snow (1970–1977)
- Jack Farr (1977–1978)
- Ann Robbins (1978–1995)
- Jane Weygand (1995–2004)
- Cindy Echols (2004–2007)
- Patricia Simpson (2007–present)
References
- Summe, Sheryl Spradling. (2001). Homewood: The Life of a City. Homewood, AL: Friends of the Homewood Public Library.