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Highlands is an independent school serving families with children from preschool through grade eight. With a commitment to academic excellence, creative expression, and leadership development, Highlands School prepares students to thrive and make a positive difference in a changing world.

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Welcome

Stay Connected

We invite you to use this website as a primary means of staying involved in your child’s experience at Highlands. As you explore the new site, please let us know what you think. Learn more...

Carpool and Bus Rules

Safety First

Please help us keep the children safe during carpool by following these simple rules. The rules...
Highlands Carpool Rules

Celebrating 50!

Celebrating 50 Years!

This September Highlands celebrates fifty years of A Higher Degree of Learning. Mrs. Evalina Brown Spencer opened Highlands School in 1958 with sixty students from four years of age through first grade. Today the faculty and families of Highlands continue to realize Mrs. Spencer's vision of a school that prepares children academically, physically, and ethically in a caring environment with over two hundred and sixty students from four years of age through eighth grade.

In the Spotlight

 

 

Letters About Literature

7th grade student wins National Award

After winning the national writing competition Letters About Literature, Cori Mazer, Highlands School seventh grader, has chosen our library to receive a $10,000 reading promotion grant from Target.

Letters About Literature is a national reading promotion program of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. Students write to authors who have written a book that has changed the way the student looks at the world. Cori's letter to Lois Lowry about The Giver won first place in Alabama, and was then chosen as a national winner.
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Summer at Highlands

Time to register for a Summer at Highlands!

Highlands School’s Higher Degree of Learning does not end when the school year is over. A Summer at Highlands offers sixty-seven unique opportunities tailored to your child’s age group with talented teachers and quality resources you expect from Highlands School. We also offer Morning and Afternoon Care for children who are attending camps. Register now – before the camps fill up!

2009 EDP Summer Camp Brochure (View Online Version)
2009 EDP Summer Camp Contract
Summer at Highlands T-shirt order form

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Highlands School  |  4901 Old Leeds Road  |  Birmingham, Alabama  35213  |  Phone (205) 956-9731 |  Fax (205) 951-8127
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