Hillcrest High School (Tuscaloosa, Alabama)

Hillcrest High School
Address
300 Patriot Parkway Tuscaloosa, Alabama United States
Information
Type	Public
Opened	1982
School district	Tuscaloosa County School System
Principal	Jeff Hinton
Grades	9-12
Enrollment	1,320
Color(s)	Red & Blue
Nickname	Patriots

Hillcrest High School is public high school near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA. The school is located in the unincorporated suburban area south of Tuscaloosa informally known as Taylorville. The school is administered by the Tuscaloosa County School System under the authority of the Alabama State Department of Education. The school currently enrolls around 1250 students in grades 9-12 and has a faculty of 75 teachers.

The school was opened in 1981 as a grade 7-12 high school when grade 10-12 students from the south Tuscaloosa County area were transferred from Holt High School to the already existing Hillcrest Junior High School in anticipation of growth in the area. The building that housed the school had opened in 1968 as a black elementary school and was later converted to an integrated junior high school.

In 1991, the current campus was opened for grades 9-12 (the former campus added grade 6 from feeder elementary schools to become Hillcrest Middle School). An expansion wing was added in 2002.

Hillcrest participates in interscholastic athletics in Class 6A of the Alabama High School Athletic Association. The school's athletic squads are nicknamed the Patriots. The school's original nickname was the Red Devils but this nickname was changed after criticism and pressure from local church groups.

18 varsity sports are sponsored: 7 for boys (baseball, basketball, football, golf, soccer, tennis and wrestling), 6 for girls (women's basketball, golf, women's soccer, softball, tennis and volleyball) and 5 coed (cheerleading, cross country, track and field, swimming and JROTC).

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