Editing Hoover, Alabama (section)

==Education==
===Primary and secondary schools===
{{Main|Hoover City Schools}}
[[File:Hoover High School Facade.PNG|thumb|[[Hoover High School (Alabama)|Hoover High School]]]]
Hoover is served by [[Hoover City Schools]]. It has ten elementary schools, three middle schools, and two high schools, [[Spain Park High School]] and [[Hoover High School (Alabama)|Hoover High School]]. Both schools have ranked high for excellent academics, being rated close to the top five hundred schools in the country. During the 2022–2023 school year, some 2,841 students enrolled in Hoover High School,<ref>
{{cite web|url=https://www.schooldigger.com/go/AL/schools/0000700251/school.aspx|title=Hoover High School|access-date=March 9, 2024|year=2023|publisher=schooldigger.com}}</ref> 1,503 in Spain Park High School,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.schooldigger.com/go/AL/schools/0000701456/school.aspx|title=Spain Park High School|access-date=March 9, 2024|year=2023|publisher=schooldigger.com}}</ref> with a total of 13,557 students in the Hoover City School system.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.schooldigger.com/go/AL/district/00007/search.aspx|title=Hoover City Schools|access-date=March 9, 2024}}</ref> Spain Park received the [[Blue Ribbon Schools Program|National Blue Ribbon Award]] in 2008.<ref>[http://www.ed.gov/programs/nclbbrs/2008/2008-schools.html "No Child Left Behind-Blue Ribbon Schools Program - 2008 Schools"], U.S. Department of Education</ref>

Berry Middle School, which served as the city's first high school before the present Hoover High was constructed, was closed after the 2005–2006 academic year. Students were moved to a new Berry Middle School constructed near the site of Spain Park High School. A poll of residents in 2007 favored selling the school, possibly to the independent Shades Mountain Christian School.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2007/11/joint_offer_made_for_berry_sit.html|title=Joint offer made for Berry site|access-date=November 9, 2007|year=2007|publisher=The Birmingham News}}</ref> Simmons Middle School and Bumpus Middle School are the city's other middle schools.

Given the population expansion, the city built Riverchase Elementary to relieve overcrowding of some schools. The student population bubble is advancing in the system, and in the 2011–2012 academic year, Bumpus Middle School and its students were relocated to the former freshman center of Hoover High School. The former Bumpus site became Brock's Gap Intermediate School in 2011. The former Berry site became the current Bumpus Middle School in 2011. Brock's Gap served 5th and 6th graders until 2018 when Hoover Rezoning went into effect. They now serve 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders. Bumpus Middle School served only 7th and 8th graders until 2018 because of Hoover Rezoning. They now serve 6th, 7th, and 8th graders.

===Colleges and universities===
The Shelby-Hoover campus of the [[Jefferson State Community College]] is in [[Shelby County, Alabama|Shelby County]], is in Hoover, near Spain Park High School.<ref>"[http://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/GUBlock/st01_al/place/p0135896_hoover/DC10BLK_P0135896_012.pdf 2010 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Hoover city, AL]." ([https://web.archive.org/web/20140512214002/http://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/GUBlock/st01_al/place/p0135896_hoover/DC10BLK_P0135896_012.pdf Archive]). [[United States Census Bureau]]. Retrieved on May 11, 2014.</ref><ref>"[http://www.jeffstateonline.com/locations/shelby/ Shelby-Hoover Campus]." Jefferson State Community College. Retrieved on May 11, 2014. Use the Google Maps function to see the buildings and where they are in relation to the city limits.</ref> Faulkner University has a campus on Valleydale Road; The University of Alabama in Birmingham (UAB) in downtown Birmingham is only 8–10 miles away, and features the premier medical school of Alabama.

===Miscellaneous education===
The Birmingham Supplementary School Inc. (BSS, バーミングハム日本語補習校 ''Bāminguhamu Nihongo Hoshūkō''), a [[Hoshuko|part-time Japanese school]], holds its classes at the Shelby-Hoover campus. Its office is at the [[Honda]] Manufacturing of Alabama, LLC facility in unincorporated [[Talladega County, Alabama|Talladega County]], near [[Lincoln, Alabama|Lincoln]]. The school opened on September 1, 2001.<ref>"[https://sites.google.com/a/bssal.org/bss/english About Birmingham Supplementary School]" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20140512225946/https://sites.google.com/a/bssal.org/bss/english Archive]). Birmingham Supplementary School. Retrieved on May 11, 2014. "Mailing Address 1800 Honda Drive Lincoln, AL 35096 c/o Honda Manufacturing of Alabama, LLC" and "Facility Jefferson State Community College, Shelby Campus 4600 Valleydale Road Birmingham, AL 35242 " Japanese page: "[http://www.bssal.org/initial/gaiyo 学校の概要]" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20140512214308/http://www.bssal.org/initial/gaiyo Archive]).</ref>