McAdory High School is a four-year public high school in the Birmingham, Alabama suburb of McCalla. It is one of fourteen high schools in the Jefferson County School System and was named for early local educator Isaac McAdory. School colors are black and gold, and the athletic teams are called the Yellowjackets. MHS competes in AHSAA Class 6A athletics.Student ProfileEnrollment in grades 9-12 for the 2013-14 school year is 975 students. Approximately 48% of students are white, 46% are African-American, 5% are Hispanic, and 1% are multiracial. Roughly 40% of students qualify for free or reduced price lunch.MHS has a graduation rate of 92%. Approximately 69% of its students meet or exceed state proficiency standards in mathematics, and 76% meet or exceed standards in reading. The average ACT score for MHS students is 21.HistoryIn 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 continued there for the school's 320 students. The first section of a replacement building opened in 1929, the remaining sections in 1931. On Sunday December 18, 1938 another fire destroyed this building. A replacement school in the Art-Deco style was built as a WPA project. It opened in 1941 and is the building used today. In 2006, a building renovation was started.
