This year, Bluff Park Elementary School chose its library media specialist, Allison Dolan, as its Teacher of the Year. Gerri Kimble, a business and marketing teacher at Hoover High School, was named the Secondary Teacher of the Year.
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But Hoover students still lag behind the neighboring school districts of Mountain Brook, Vestavia Hills, Homewood and Trussville in the percentage of students who are proficient in English, math and science.