Ed White Middle School

Ed White Middle School was a public 6th through 8th grade middle school in Huntsville, Alabama. It was located at 4800 Sparkman Drive in northwest Huntsville.The school was named for astronaut Edward H. White II. White was the first American to walk in space, and he was later killed in the Apollo 1 fire at Cape Kennedy on January 27, 1967. Huntsville is home to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and has strong community ties to the space program. At the same time, the Huntsville City Schools named Roger B. Chaffee Elementary and Virgil I. Grissom High School for White's fallen Apollo 1 crewmates. The school was originally to be named Northwest Jr. High. Ed White and Davis Hills middle schools were closed at the end of the 2013-2014 academic year due to low test scores, and their student bodies combined to form McNair Junior High.Recognized facultyEd White Middle School teacher Marcus Taylor was one of just 60 teachers honored by the Parker Griffith Family Foundation for "dedication and desire to succeed in the classroom" with a 2006/2007 Classroom Grant award. Teacher Dennis Kimery was one of just 42 recipients of a 2005/2006 Classroom Grant award from the same organization.Science teacher Bonnie Garrett won one of 80 Milken Family Foundation National Educator Awards in 2007. The $25,000 check was presented during a November 2007 school assembly. Garrett, who teaches biology and aerospace science, was Alabama's only Milken Educator Award recipient for 2007.