Gov. Kay Ivey officially opened the new Alabama School of Cyber Technology and Engineering in Huntsville today. It is the only high school in America, Ivey said, “focused on integrating cyber technology and engineering into the academic disciplines.”
in Huntsville today calling it a “testimony to our commitment to being innovative in every way.”
The school is Alabama’s newest state magnet school on a 26-acre campus in Cummings Research Park and is similar in function to the Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham and the Alabama School of Mathematics and Science in Mobile. The cyber school has 254 students now: 151 commuter students and 103 boarding students. Thirty-eight percent are female and 38 percent are minority students, the school said, and they all come tuition free from 61 Alabama cities and towns.
“We’ve been dreaming of this for four years and we are here,” said Dr. Claudette Owens, a cyber school foundation board member. “Where else would we but in Huntsville in the state of Alabama introducing another first?”