Thompson High School

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Thompson High School
Established 1921
School type Public
District Alabaster City Schools
Grades 9-12
Principal Daniel Steele
Enrollment 1800 (2012)
Colors red, black & white
Mascot Warriors
Location 100 Warrior Drive
Alabaster
Website shelbyed.k12.al.us/schools/ths

Thompson High School is a high school in the Alabaster City Schools system.

Thomas Carlyle Thompson, chairman of Buck Creek Mill, donated the land for a new high school in the Siluria vicinity, to be operated as part of the Shelby County Schools system. Local citizens joined the mill owner in funding construction, and the new school opened on October 3, 1921.

A second 8-room brick schoolhouse was constructed in 1949-50. The original building was destroyed in a January 25, 1951 fire and soon replaced by a brick structure added onto the newly-constructed classroom annex. The new school was completed in 1952.

The Thompson Warriors football team, coached by Larry Simmons, won the state 3A championship in 1982.

That building was replaced with a new campus, which opened for the 1987-88 school year. The Larry Simmons Stadium was dedicated on October 30, 1992. The 1952 building was remodeled in 2009 as the Linda Nolen Learning Center (now the Thompson Sixth Grade Center).

The Alabaster City Council voted on October 17, 2011 to form a separate school district, and appointed five citizens to the new Alabaster Board of Education on March 5, 2012.

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