

I know she’ll be a wonderful vice president. So she’s rising in her leadership ability as a board member, and she’s a wonderful board member. He’s affirmed, officially tonight, and that’s an element of stability. “It’ s very exciting to have Kathy Brown return as president, I think stability is important, and that will bring an element of stability,” Neill said. Steve Ward with a certificate of affirmation of a school board member for five more years. Kathy Brown was re-elected as board president, and Kim DeShazo was elected as board vice president. The board also elected board officers during the meeting. Related Story: HTHS Scholars Bowl prepares for National Academic Quiz Tournament The HTHS Varsity team qualified for the 2022 NAQT National Championship in Atlanta, Georgia. The board also congratulated HTHS Scholars Bowl Katherine Spusta on her achievement throughout the year. The board congratulated the HTHS Scholars Bowl Team, coached by Josh Haynes, on an outstanding season (63-39) Overall Record and (34-11) Overall Record for the Varsity Team. Neill mentioned after hearing the end of the year reports that TCS continues to plan for a fourth elementary school and hopes to find an area on the northern side of Trussville to help alleviate some of the overcrowding at PES. PES has a current enrollment of 1,328 students, with 27 of those being preschool students. We’re still doing that, and we’ve evolved to where it feels more normal now.” “We started the year out with the mask and the social distancing. “One was the effect of the pandemic that it had on our kids,” Lothspeich said. Lothspeich explained that PES had challenges they focused on this year. “ We started the year off with a new mission statement for PES, and it was students acquire a learning foundation where potential is realized while igniting the desire to make a difference,” Lothspeich said. Lisa Lothspeich, said that PES is optimistic about next year as they reflect on the challenges from the past two years. Paine Elementary School (PES) Principal, Dr. “It has been a joy to see all of our parents come in, whether it be for lunch, any of our assemblies, or choir performances, and it just seemed a lot better, and everyone seemed to enjoy it,” Faust said. She also commented on having parents back in the schools. Phyllis Faust, said MES is ending the school year with 365 students sending 59 to middle school.įaust explained she is most proud of the attendance at MES because that means that students want to come to school. Magnolia Elementary School (MES) Principal, Dr. “I think that we will probably have our highest enrollment next coming year.”Ĭahaba has six empty classrooms at CES, and Tyner said they have plenty of space for growth. “We had 535ish around 2019, and we’re back to 525 now,” Tyner said. Tyner explained that CES had its highest enrollment in 2019, and then when the pandemic hit, enrollment “backed off.” “W hen we started to write down this year, it was rather empowering to realize what we would have done,” Tyner said. Salem explained that the school year started with 1,552 students and ended with 1,595 students.Ĭahaba Elementary School (CES) Principal, Joy Tyner, spoke on how empowering this year was to see the students overcome the different challenges. “I t’s been refreshing this year to see all that,” Salem said. HTHS students and staff were able to experience prom, theatre, award days, teacher appreciation week, clubs, and so much more. Hewitt-Trussville High School Principal Tim Salem also commented on the transition back to normalcy with the students having more opportunities to get back to social interactions.


“On a positive note, we have seven empty classrooms, so we definitely have room to accommodate this growth.” “G rowth continues to happen at HTMS and all of our schools,” Abney said. “Anytime there was an opportunity to be social with their peers, they were, and that was really cool to see especially culminating this past Friday with our Spring Fling in school it was the best day I had with kids in three years.”Ībney explained that the enrollment went from 1,117 to 1,147, with the upcoming class into sixth grade having 386 students. “I’m really proud of our students, they were very eager to have some normalcy, and I think they were craving social interaction,” Abney said. Abney said HTMS stayed f ocused and stayed the course with academics trying to make this year as normal as possible.
