Renovations on the interior of historic Barton Academy began today. The new school, under the leadership of the Mobile County School district, will serve students under the title of Barton Academy for ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Students will soon be learning and building memories again at long-vacant Barton Academy, one of Mobile’s most iconic buildings and Alabama’s first public school. The Barton ...

A $14 million fundraising milestone has been reached in the effort to transform Mobile’s historic Barton Academy building into a functioning schoolhouse. Barton Academy, a Greek Revival building in a ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - It was Thursday night out for mom, dad, and friends of Barton Academy for Advanced World Studies. Downtown’s Innovation Portal played host as the school’s PTO looks to raise big ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — In tonight’s What’s Working, a landmark in downtown Mobile is being transformed into Mobile County’s newest magnet school for students in the sixth through ninth grades.

SPANISH FORT, Ala. (WALA) - Going beyond the textbook and outside of the classroom — Barton Academy’s 9th grade AP World History class arrived early at the Alabama State Veteran Memorial Cemetery at ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Barton Academy for Advanced World Studies has been given the highest recognition by the National Trust for Historic Preservation for a preservation project, according to Mobile ...

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“The Holdovers” production designer Ryan Warren Smith pieced together five school locations for Alexander Payne’s latest. In the retro movie, set in the early 1970s at the fictional prep school Barton ...

If there's a place where history comes alive, where the past is vividly reimagined, and where a single woman's voice can evoke the spirit of a nation torn asunder, it's The Academy Theatre this ...