About Us

      Clanton Middle School is located at 835 Temple Road in Clanton, Alabama and serves grades 7-8. It is home to an outstanding family of faculty and staff who take pride in the role with which they have been entrusted--helping mold the hearts, minds, and characters of their community's future leaders. They know and respect that middle school is an important transitional time for each child, when maturity and social skills must be intentionally built right alongside the academic curriculum. It is not a responsibility that Clanton Middle takes lightly.

       The current school replaced Henry M. Adair School, a junior high converted in 1963 to grades 5-8 from the previous location of Chilton County High School, built in 1939 at 102 First Street for grades 7-12. Adair was named after an outstanding math teacher and vice-principal. With Clanton's increasing population, an additional building was needed, so Clanton Intermediate was built in 2001 and absorbed grade 5 from Adair. The aging of the beloved Adair building began to require such extensive repairs that it was determined to be time for a replacement, so Clanton Middle School was born. The first principal of Adair Junior High was Bernard Stewart. Principals who followed included Ray Scruggs until 1972, R.G. Davis from 1972 to 1987, James Popwell from 1987 to 1991, Frank Daniel from 1991 to 1995, and Don Finlayson, Jr. from 1995 until the closing and replacement of Adair in 2005.

       The bright and shiny new building of Clanton Middle School officially opened its doors in January of 2005 for 700+ students in grades 6-8. In an effort to honor the previous school and its namesake, Clanton Middle's Media Center is named the Adair Media Center. Since initial construction, the new school has expanded with the addition of a gym, a field house, a band room, and two career-tech classrooms with accompanying labs for culinary and shop. In 2020, sixth grade was transitioned to the intermediate school to reflect changes in state curriculum requirements. The first principal of Clanton Middle School was Don Finlayson, Jr., who oversaw its construction and continued to lead the school until 2015. Principals who followed were Kelvin Boulware from 2015 to 2016, Carla White from 2016 to 2023, and our current principal, Mr. Tony Byrd.