School Profile

Link to The Altamont School Profile for 2007-08

View the Altamont School 2007-2008 School Profile in Adobe PDF format.

Quick Facts:

  • Motto: Truth, Knowledge, Honor
  • Mascot: Knight
  • Colors: Gold and White
  • Class Day: 7:55 am-3:15 pm, with help sessions following.
  • Faculty consists of 54 men and women who are regionally and nationally recognized as outstanding educators, who all teach in their certified fields of study.
  • An extensive collection of modern and contemporary art and sculpture appears in every hall of the school. A sculpture garden connects the two wings of the school.

Altamont is a good choice for students who excel in their present school but who want greater breadth and challenge in all areas of school life. Altamont is a small family - approximately 400 students in grades 5-12 with socio-economic, ethnic, and religious diversity. Most of the students live in Birmingham and the surrounding communities.

Altamont is located on the crest of Red Mountain in a secluded residential neighborhood five minutes from downtown Birmingham. Its 28 acre main campus includes six tennis courts, a track and soccer field. A second campus includes soccer, softball, and baseball fields and a gymnasium. The main school campus has 47 classrooms, two science wings, a study garden, a fine arts center, a 17,000 plus volume library, an art gallery, a student center, and special rooms for chorus, art, orchestra, and dance. An audio-visual recording, editing and production studio was recently added to the fine arts suite. Two gymnasiums offer volleyball courts, basketball courts, tennis courts, and weight rooms. The school owned plant is valued at over $12,000,000.

The Altamont School is a college preparatory day school enrolling girls and boys in Grades 5 through 12. The school was established in 1975 through the merger of the Birmingham University School and the Brooke Hill School. Birmingham University School was founded as a proprietary school for boys in 1922 by Captain Basil M. Parks and reorganized as a non-profit institution in 1945. Brooke Hill School was founded in 1940 by Mr. and Mrs. George Blackburn as college preparatory school for girls.