Spain Park High School

Spain Park High School (SPHS) is a four-year public high school in the Birmingham, Alabama, suburb of Hoover, that includes the Greystone Golf & Country Club–a 4000-acre master-planned golf community. It is the smaller of two high schools in the Hoover City School System. School colors are Carolina blue, black, and white, and the athletic teams are called the Jaguars. SPHS competes in AHSAA Class 6A athletics.

Spain Park High School
Location
4700 Jaguar Drive Hoover , Alabama 35242 United States
Coordinates	33°23′32″N 86°43′44″W
Information
Type	Public
Opened	2001 (24 years ago) (2001)
School district	Hoover City Schools
CEEB code	010381
Principal	Amanda Esslinger
Faculty	94.45 (on an FTE basis)[1]
Grades	09-12
Enrollment	1,502 (2023–2024)[1]
Student to teacher ratio	15.90[1]
Color(s)	Light Blue, Black, and White
Athletics	AHSAA Class 6A
Mascot	Jaguars
Newspaper	The Jag
Yearbook	The Rosette
Website	sphs.hoovercityschools.net

Academics

• Niche ranked SPHS as the tenth best public high school in the state in 2025.^[2]
• The U.S. Department of Education recognized SPHS as a National Blue Ribbon School in 2008.^[3]

Demographics

Enrollment in grades 9–12 for the 2023–24 school year was 1,502 students. Approximately 60% of students are White, 19% are Black, 11% are Hispanic, 6.6% are Asian, and 3.3% are multiracial.^[1]

Athletics

SPHS competes in AHSAA Class 6A athletics,^[4] and fields teams in the following sports:^[5]

• Baseball
• Basketball
• Bowling
• Cheerleading
• Cross Country
• Dance
• Football
• Golf
• Indoor Track & Field
• Lacrosse (non-AHSAA sport)
• Outdoor Track & Field
• Soccer
• Softball
• Swimming and Diving
• Tennis
• Volleyball
• Wrestling

SPHS has won state championships in the following sports:

• Lacrosse (2011, 2012, 2015, 2016)^{[citation needed]}
• Baseball (2014)^[6]
• Boys' golf (2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016)^[7]
• Girls' golf (2009, 2017, 2022) ^[8]
• Boys' indoor track and field (2012)^[9]
• Girls' soccer (2004, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2022)^[10]
• Boys' soccer (2021)^[10]
• Girls' tennis (2010)^[11]
• Boys' tennis (2007, 2021)^[12]
• Boys' bowling (2016, 2017. 2022, 2024)^[13]
• Girls' basketball (2018, 2020)^[14]

Spain Park's football team was shown on MTV's television program Two-A-Days, as an opponent of arch-rival Hoover High.^[15]

Notable alumni

• Tyler Grisham (2005) – football player, NFL^[16]
• Chris Ellis (2010) – baseball player, MLB^[17][18]
• Simone Charley (2013) – soccer player, NWSL^[19]
• Nick Mullens (2013) – football player, NFL^[20]
• Michael Jackson (2015) – football player, NFL^[21]
• Austin Wiley (2016) – basketball player who plays in Israel^[22]
• Colton Ledbetter (2020)– baseball player in the Tampa Bay Rays organization^[23]
• Sarah Ashlee Barker (2020) - WNBA player^[24]