About Cahaba

When Cahaba Elementary School opened in the fall of 2016, it brought with it a rich history that started in 1938 when the doors of this historic campus first opened as Hewitt High School. 

The current Cahaba campus, as stated above, was originally built as Hewitt High School and served thousands of students for decades. This site then reopened in September 1984 as Hewitt-Trussville Middle School.  It closed again in December 2007, then reopened in August of 2016 as Cahaba Elementary School.

This incredible campus has a signature light fixture on its "front porch."  This original piece has hung through six major wars and fifteen presidents.  It has lit the doorway to education for decades, a tradition steeped in history now poised to serve a new generation eager to create its own educational history.