Type Public Principal Annie C. Savage Enrollment 600+ Phone +1 256-428-7680 Motto "Flying to new heights" | Established 1969 Grades Middle school (6-8) Information 256-428-7680 Mascot Bulldogs | |
Address 4800 Sparkman Dr NW, Huntsville, AL 35810, USA District Huntsville City School District Similar Ronald E McNair Jr High Sch, Westlawn Middle School, Huntsville Junior High School, Chapman Middle School, Huntsville City Schools | ||
Movie night at ed white middle school
Ed White Middle School was a public 6th through 8th grade middle school in Huntsville, Alabama. It was located at 4800 Sparkman Drive in northwest Huntsville.
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- Movie night at ed white middle school
- Ed white middle school
- Recognized faculty
- Engineering outreach
- Facilities and structure
- Controversy
- References
The school was named for astronaut Edward H. White II. White was the first American to walk in space, and he was later killed in the Apollo 1 fire at Cape Kennedy on January 27, 1967. Huntsville is home to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and has strong community ties to the space program. At the same time, the Huntsville City Schools named Roger B. Chaffee Elementary and Virgil I. Grissom High School for White's fallen Apollo 1 crewmates. The school was originally to be named Northwest Jr. High. Ed White and Davis Hills middle schools were closed at the end of the 2013-2014 academic year, and their student bodies combined to form McNair Junior High.
Ed white middle school
Recognized faculty
Ed White Middle School teacher Marcus Taylor was one of just 60 teachers honored by the Parker Griffith Family Foundation for "dedication and desire to succeed in the classroom" with a 2006/2007 Classroom Grant award. Teacher Dennis Kimery was one of just 42 recipients of a 2005/2006 Classroom Grant award from the same organization.
Science teacher Bonnie Garrett won one of 80 Milken Family Foundation National Educator Awards in 2007. The $25,000 check was presented during a November 2007 school assembly. Garrett, who teaches biology and aerospace science, was Alabama's only Milken Educator Award recipient for 2007.
Engineering outreach
In April 2001, teacher Doreen Forsythe and a group of students from Ed White Middle School visited NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center to help produce some of the mirrors for Starshine 3, an Earth-orbiting satellite that resembles "a high-tech disco ball" and was designed to help study the effect of solar activity on Earth's atmosphere. Ed White was one of 500 schools around the world whose students helped grind and polish mirrors for the Starshine project.
In 2002, students from Ed White Middle School participated in NASA's Earth-to-Orbit Engineering Design Challenge. Under the guidance of a mentor from the Marshall Space Flight Center, students built a scale model of a propeller designed by the Wright brothers.
Teacher Roberta Freeman and engineering mentor Gregory Miley led a team of students in the 2008 National Engineers Week Future City Competition. The Alabama Future City Competition was held on Saturday, January 19, 2008, at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
Facilities and structure
The school gymnasium is a Huntsville-Madison County Permitted Fallout Shelter as designated by the Madison County Emergency Management Agency. The rated capacity is 295 persons.
Controversy
In late 2000, during a movement to ban corporal punishment across the state of Alabama, Ed White Middle School was one of just ten public schools in Huntsville that still used corporal punishment. Paddling incidents in 2003 again made headlines but as of 2008 the policy of the Huntsville City Schools leaves corporal punishment as an allowable but discouraged practice.