Mountain Brook High School

Recognition

• MBHS was ranked 4th among the 12 Alabama schools included in the Washington Post's 2015 list of America's Most Challenging High Schools.
• MBHS was included among the top 150 high schools in the U.S. by the Daily Beast.
• SchoolDigger ranks MBHS 2nd among 357 high schools in the state of Alabama and 1st among high schools in the Birmingham-Hoover metropolitan area.
• Niche ranks MBHS 2nd in the state of Alabama and 2nd among high schools in the Birmingham-Hoover metropolitan area.
• The U.S. Department of Education has recognized MBHS as a National Blue Ribbon School, the highest honor awarded by the department.

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Accomplishments

• United States Department of Education Blue Ribbon School; 1983–84, 1992-93.
• United States Department of Education Secondary Schools Recognition Program.
• Selected by Redbook magazine as one of 155 schools honored for "overall excellence"
• Recognized by Newsweek magazine as one of the nation's top 100 high schools.
• Honored by College Board for academic excellence and outstanding support and participation in Advanced Placement Program.
• Mountain Brook has graduated three Rhodes Scholars.
• Mountain Brook has won more state athletic championships than any other public school in the state of Alabama.
• In October 2006, Mountain Brook High School's drama department, under the direction of Pat Yates, combined with Fairfield High Preparatory School to present Christopher Sergel's dramatization of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. The joint production received local and eventually national attention, and was featured on NBC's Today Show and NBC Nightly News. Even Harper Lee herself took notice, as the normally private author agreed to meet with the cast.
• Mountain Brook was named the top athletic program in Alabama for the 2006-2007 season by Sports Illustrated.

Notable graduates

• Nate Bland, former MLB player
• Scott Bondy, an American folk/alternative musician. Formerly lead singer of the band Verbena.
• Courteney Cox, actress
• Alan Hunter, MTV Veejay
• Spencer Jakab, author and Wall Street Journal editor
• David Jaffe, video game designer
• Pat DuPré, semi-finalist at Wimbledon in 1979 and a quarter finalist in the U.S. Open. 1979-1981; he was ranked in the top 20 in the world, reaching as high as 12th.
• Jared Weinstein, Special Assistant and Personal Aide to U.S. President George W. Bush from 2006 to 2009
• Graeme McFarland, football player
• Emeel Salem, All-American baseball player at the University of Alabama, former minor league player in the Tampa Bay Rays organization.
• William Vlachos, center for the University of Alabama National Championship Team in 2009 and 2011.
• Tommy Dewey, actor
• Sarah Simmons, Top 8 finalist on season 4 of The Voice.
• Tribble Reese, quarterback for Clemson, and star in the Reality Series The New Atlanta.
• Trevor Holder, pitched in College World Series for University of Georgia. Currently with Washington Nationals organization.
• Natalee Holloway, an 18-year-old who mysteriously disappeared while in Aruba with friends in 2005.
• Bucky McMillan, Samford basketball coach who coached at Mountain Brook from 2008 to 2020.