
March 18, 2025
The Birmingham City Schools Librarian of the Year for the 2024-25 academic year is Beverly Brown of A.H. Parker High School! Mrs. Brown is always looking to help her students ...

March 18, 2025
Bands and choirs from Birmingham City Schools impressed the judges at recent state assessments. Out of 17 music groups competing in the State Music Performance Assessment, State...

February 27, 2025
With lead funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and United Airlines, the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz brought its Peer-to-Peer jazz education program to Alabama pu...

February 24, 2025
This week, our state's high school students will be taking the next steps in their promising futures. Thousands of Alabama seniors will be applying to colleges and universities nat...

February 11, 2025
Amanda Metcalfe, a teacher at A.H. Parker High School, is the winner of the Heart of Education Award for January 2025. Representatives from Drummond Company, Inc. and ABC 33/40 p...

February 6, 2025
National Signing Day marks the first day of the final signing period for the Class of 2025, where uncommitted or unsigned players sign their letter of intent to play football for ...

January 29, 2025
The Parker Thundering Herd are going to need a bigger trophy case, because the team has now picked up numerous post-season individual awards to go with its 6A state championship t...

December 21, 2024
After placing four teams in the playoffs – namely the 6A state champion Parker Thundering Herd along with the Ramsay Rams, Wenonah Dragons, and Carver Rams in 5A – nine BCS stud...

December 17, 2024
What's the word? Thundering Herd. What's the day? Thundering Herd Day! In recognition of the team's historic state championship win earlier this month, Mayor Randall Woodfin decl...

December 16, 2024
More than 30 BCS high schoolers can now add "published author" to their accomplishments! The young authors signed copies of "Screened" during an event at Carver High School toda...

December 14, 2024
The 2024 Word Up! Festival, hosted by The Flourish Alabama in partnership with the Birmingham Public Library, was an amazing night of powerful poetry from Birmingham students. H...

December 13, 2024
More than two dozen high school scholars recently graduated from the Birmingham Sister Cities International Dual Enrollment Academy (IDEA). The program included classes at Miles ...

December 4, 2024
Six of the top scholar athletes from A.H. Parker High School's football team signed their Letters of Intent today in front of family, friends, teammates, teachers, coaches, media,...

November 22, 2024
The football program at historic A.H. Parker High School in Birmingham, Alabama is in the midst of a resurgence under Coach Frank Warren. On the heels of the team’s first region...

November 22, 2024
The Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE) released its Annual Report Card for school districts and individual schools. The reports are based on several goals, and they als...

October 31, 2024
23 players from the A.H. Parker Thundering Herd football team were named to the BCS All-Academic Football Team this season. To qualify, players must maintain a grade point avera...

October 9, 2024
Every Wednesday morning, teachers, administrators and students at A.H. Parker High School gather for Prayer at the Pole.

October 1, 2024
Sheila Tyson Donates Generously to Parker High School During Friday Night’s ESPN LIVE Football Game BIRMINGHAM, AL— In a heartwarming display of community spirit, local philant...

August 21, 2024
Meet Thunder 9590. This robot, built by a team scholars at A.H. Parker High School, represented the school in the 2024 Rocket City Regional Robotics Competition. In its first year...

August 20, 2024
This Thursday, August 22, the Ramsay Rams and Parker Thundering Herd will play in the second annual Stop the Violence Classic at Legion Field. Players, coaches, and administrator...