Hoover High School To Get New Band Facility

HOOVER, AL - One of the state's largest high school bands received some good news this week, as the Hoover Board of Education approved a new facility for the Hoover High School band. The 2017 Hoover High School marching band has 354 members, including the color guard and Buccanettes dance line., which makes it only slightly smaller than the University of Alabama's Million Dollar Band.

The new facility, which is scheduled for completion Aug. 1 for the 2018-2019 school year, is a 34,000 square foot facility that will cost $5.4 million. It will be an addition onto the end of the current high school, in a gravel area near Buccaneer Stadium, and will include a central room large enough to seat 600 people and will be surrounded by practice rooms for smaller groups and storage space for instruments and other band equipment.

Duncan and Thompson Construction Services was the low bidder that won the contract from the school board to build the new band facility. Other bids were for $5.8 million and $6.1 million.

Photo courtesy of Hoover High School Band