Trussville City Schools

Hewitt-Trussville High School (HTHS) is the only high school in the district and serves all students in grades 9-12. It enrolled 1,396 students in the 2013-14 school year, and with 94 faculty, had a student-teacher ratio of approximately 15:1.[10] HTHS athletic teams compete in AHSAA Class 7A athletics.

Completed in 2008, the HTHS campus is located on a 127-acre site on Husky Parkway between Trussville Clay Road and Deerfoot Parkway, across I-59 from Hewitt-Trussville Middle School. The school is able to accommodate about 1,600 students, with room to grow to 2,400 students in the future. The school was designed by Davis Architects and encompasses 285,000-square feet. Its design includes white columns and a clock tower, and at a final cost of $70 million, the school was the most expensive high school ever built in Alabama upon its opening in October 2008.[11]

Hewitt-Trussville Middle School (HTMS) serves all students in grades 6-8. It enrolled 1,000 students in the 2013-14 school year and employed 68 faculty.[12] Students from Paine Intermediate School enter HTMS in the sixth grade, as do students from Cahaba and Magnolia Elementary Schools.

HTMS was established in 1984 on the former campus of Hewitt-Trussville High School in the Cahaba Homestead Project. In 2008, it moved to its current campus on Trussville Clay Road, across Interstate 59 from the new Hewitt-Trussville High School.

Cahaba Elementary School welcomed its first students for the 2016-17 school year. It is located on the Mall in the Cahaba Project and occupies the renovated campus of the former Hewitt-Trussville Middle and High Schools. The historic campus was renovated at a cost of approximately $9 million and has the capacity to house up to 500 students.[13] It is expected to enroll approximately 400 students.

Magnolia Elementary School was scheduled to open for the 2016-17 school year, but construction delays pushed its opening back by a month and a half.[14] Magnolia serves most of the students in the southern part of the city.[15] A new construction with a budget of $14 million, Magnolia is large enough to house up to 500 students but is expected to enroll approximately 400.[16]

Paine Elementary School is situated on U.S. Highway 11 on a tract of land donated by Amerex Corporation founders Ned and Goldie Paine. Paine previously comprised two distinct schools on the same campus: Paine Primary School, which enrolled grades K-2, and Paine Intermediate School, which enrolled grades 3-5. Starting with the 2016-17 academic year, the two schools were consolidated as one. The most recent enrollment data for the two schools, from 2013-14, indicated that they jointly enrolled 1,873 students and employed 141 teachers.[17][18][19] That number is expected to be cut by half with the opening of Cahaba and Magnolia Elementary Schools.[15]