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Alabama Breaks Ground on Statewide Healthcare High School in Demopolis

State support combines with a $26.4 million Bloomberg Philanthropies grant to build a pipeline into healthcare careers for Alabama students.

Overview

  • Construction begins at a 10-acre South Cedar Avenue site beside Whitfield Regional Hospital to enable clinical collaboration.
  • The first freshman class is slated to start in August 2026 on a temporary University of West Alabama campus in Livingston, with the Demopolis campus targeted for August 2027.
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering president Dr. Selwyn Vickers will serve as Special Advisor to the school and its supporting foundation.
  • Applications are open for rising ninth graders, and tuition is free as a state-funded school, with students covering meals and activities and financial assistance available.
  • ASHS becomes Alabama’s fourth free, state-supported residential specialty school and is the only site in Bloomberg’s 10-school initiative being built from the ground up.