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Oak Grove High School
Address
Map
9494 Oak Grove Parkway

Bessemer, Alabama

United States
Information
TypePublic
Established1916
School boardJefferson County Schools
PrincipalAlan Pruden
Faculty66
Grades6-12
Enrollment885
Student to teacher ratio13:1
CampusSuburban
Color(s)Red and White   
AthleticsAHSAA Class 4A
NicknameTigers
Feeder schoolsOak Grove Elementary School
Websitehttp://oakgrovehigh.jefcoed.com/

Oak Grove High School is a combined middle school and high school in the Birmingham, Alabama suburb of Bessemer. Oak Grove is one of fourteen high schools in the Jefferson County School System. School colors are red and white, and the athletic teams are called the Tigers. Oak Grove competes in AHSAA Class 4A athletics.[1]

Student Profile

Enrollment in grades 6-12 for the 2013-14 school year was approximately 885 students. Roughly 96% are white, 3% are African-American, and 1% are American Indian. Thirty-six percent of students qualified for free or reduced price lunch.[2]

Oak Grove has a graduation rate of 84%.[3] Approximately 84% of its students meet or exceed state proficiency standards in reading, and about 66% do so in mathematics. The average ACT score for Oak Grove students is 24.[4]

Athletics

Oak Grove competes in AHSAA Class 4A athletics and fields teams in the following sports:[5]

  • Baseball
  • Basketball
  • Cheerleading
  • Football
  • Indoor Track & Field
  • Outdoor Track & Field
  • Softball
  • Volleyball
  • Wrestling

Oak Grove won the 1983 state football championship for 2A schools.[6] It also won regional championships in 1980, 1984, 1985, and 2001.[7]

1998 Tornado & Campus Reconstruction

The F5 tornado that struck Jefferson County just before eight o'clock in the evening on April 8, 1998, devastated the original Oak Grove High School on Lock 17 Road. The school, which at that point served grades K-12, was damaged beyond repair with the elementary school portion destroyed. No one inside the school was killed, but a group of cheerleaders practicing at the school's gymnasium escaped disaster with only minor injuries when a wall kept a section of the roof from falling on them.

During the two years it took to construct the new school, the high school students were relocated more than sixteen miles away to the campus of Gilmore-Bell Vocational School in Hueytown. The elementary and middle school grades were relocated to the old McAdory Elementary School in McCalla, which was more than twenty miles away. When the school was rebuilt, the County School Board made the decision to construct a separate campus for the elementary school grades. Oak Grove Elementary School is located across the road from the new high school on Tiger Cub Trail.[8]

References

  1. ^ "AHSAA 2014-16 School Classification" (PDF).
  2. ^ "Oak Grove High School". SchoolDigger. Retrieved 2015-10-05.
  3. ^ "2014 Graduation Rates by School and District". Alabama School Connection. Retrieved 2015-10-29.
  4. ^ "Oak Grove High School profile on Niche".
  5. ^ "Oak Grove High -". Oak Grove High. Retrieved 2015-10-05.
  6. ^ "List of Alabama High School Athletic Association championships". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. ^ "Oak Grove football history AHSAA".
  8. ^ "1998 Oak Grove tornado - Bhamwiki". www.bhamwiki.com. Retrieved 2015-10-05.
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