McAdory High School

McAdory High School is a public high school in McCalla, Alabama, USA. It is operated by the Jefferson County Board of Education. The school is named for the McAdory family that owned the land on which the school was built. McAdory Middle School (grades 6-8) and McAdory High School (grades 9-12) shared the same campus until 2010 when the new McAdory Middle School oppened. The student-teacher ratio is 19:1, above the state average of 13:1. A new Middle school building opened for the 10-11 school year In 1916, land from the McAdory family was purchased and a high school was built, opening its doors in 1920. In the early morning hours of Friday April 5, 1929, a fire destroyed most of the school. Its four-room annex was undamaged and classes...