Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of South Alabama education from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
Reid State Community College's Evergreen campus is now an official ACT testing site, giving local students and community members a closer, more convenient option for national test dates.
Coastal Alabama Community College's nursing program is now a National League for Nursing Center of Excellence, one of only 20 programs honored nationally in 2026.
Mobile County school board member Johnny Hatcher is the subject of a police complaint after allegedly verbally threatening a man at a personnel hearing.
LeFlore Magnet career coach John Davis and Dodge Elementary teacher Kathleen Woodard received the Outstanding Educator Award from the Mobile Area Council of Scouting America.
MCPSS has launched a new 'Speak Up' app that lets students anonymously report safety concerns as the district opens the 2026-27 school year.
Gulf Shores cut the ribbon on its new 287,000-square-foot, $137 million high school Monday, with classes starting Wednesday for up to 1,000 students.
Baldwin County school bus drivers completed summer safety and technical training ahead of the new school year, transportation officials say.
Mobile County's DA office reports truancy fell another 31% and chronic absenteeism dropped 3% last school year under its Helping Families Initiative.
More than 4,000 students returned to class in Escambia County, Alabama, as AC Moore Primary School and other campuses opened for the new year.
Twenty-one Baldwin County seniors compete Aug. 15 in Bay Minette for the Distinguished Young Woman title and a shot at the state scholarship competition.