Baldwin County Board of Education

Languages other than English represented in Baldwin County Schools are Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Cambodian, Chinese, Finnish, French, German, Gujarati, Japanese, Korean, Marathi, Nepali, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Udu, Vietnamese, and other indigenous languages.

[6] The Baldwin County Superintendent of Education is Eddie Tyler who has been with the school system in various positions for several years.

Robbie Owen of Rockwell Elementary in Spanish Fort, AL was temporarily appointed after the mid-year departure of Dr. Alan T. Lee due to misconduct.

[7] Economic difficulties confronted the Board beginning in 2008 when local and state tax revenue tanked and were exacerbated by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Citizens voted twice to approve an emergency one percent sales tax that has kept the system running.

[9] In 2015, the Board asked voters to approve an additional 8 mills in ad valorem taxes.

[13] Every student, including kindergarteners, receive some kind of computer or digital device for use in the classroom.

The school board is part of the League of Innovative Schools/Digital Promise initiative and terms its local program as the Digital Renaissance.