Ramsay High School - Rams Horn Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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 Aif ter native Ramsay requested permission to pilot the trimester schedule in the Birmingham city system for the school year 1976-1977. Simultaneously, a court order of July 1976 rcdistnctcd the Ramsay attendance zone and established Ramsay as an alternative school The yearbook staff wishes to express appreciation to Martha B Surnmey for sharing with os enlightening ideas front Iter Ramsay High School — A Fifty Year Retrospective' Approximately forty-five elementary schools from around the Birmingham area are represented each year in Ramsay’s freshman class

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Die Qolden Jit life tic Jlge Tl c Kams attained a prominent place in all area of hi h school athletics. For example, in 1947. Ramsay continued to build upon an already outstanding sports record by acquiring rise Erskinc Ramsay Sportsmanship Cup. By winning the city championship in tennis, the city and state championships in track, and the city and county championships in baseball. Ramsay achieved the best overall sports record of all the city schools in 1951. In 19V1. the mighty Rams were declared state football champions and were dubbed the Big Five's wmningest football team since the birth of the Birmingham high school league in 1950. 2 e egreaali on Racial problems began to plague all the schools of Birmingham Floping to voluntarily desegregate the schools through 1968. the board gave students of both races freedom of choice' to attend any high school m the system Ramsay attempted to adjust to the changes in its student body as did the other Birmingham schools at this time. During the 1969-1970 school vear. Ramsay's enrollment totaled 880 students, of which 50.2 percent were minority. In 1970-1971. the Birmingham Board of Education instituted new school rones, and for the first time. Birmingham students were assigned to specific schools, forcing many of them to lease their alma maters By 1975, Ramsay's enrollment was 75.5 percent minority

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In otilcr CO be accepted at Ramsay, students must excel on the California Achievement Test and Ramsay's placement test. In addition, each student must he recommended by the principal, faculty members, and counselors at his elementary school ram The student body to be accepted would be fifty percent minority and fifty percent non-minority with the goal of establishing a stable, integrated situation Enrollment requirements would involve application by students throughout the city. UOur gratitude is also extended to Faye A Axford for preserving Ramsay's story in A Brief History of Ratnsas High School. V 5