Harpersville is a town in Shelby County, Alabama, United States.

[6][7] His order characterizes the municipal court as a debtors' prison and extortion racket condoned by the elected officials of Harpersville and Judicial Correction Services.

The history of the Datcher's Harpersville farm dates back to before the end of slavery.

A small, white farmhouse serves as the Datcher family farm museum; the walls are replete with images of family photos paying homage to the Datcher legacy.

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 1,614 people, 562 households, and 433 families residing in the town.

The previous mayor was Don Greene, and the two have traded this position back and forth for many election cycles.

Also in 2012, the international scandal of the traffic court investigation into the high fines, prison sentences for traffic violations, and large fees to a non- public third-party probation company was widely reported from local news agencies to the United Kingdom in the Guardian.

Shelby County judge called the Harpersville Traffic Court “judicially sanctioned extortion racket.” (https://eji.org/files/mi-mgm-alabama-city-running-exortion-racket-07-16-12.pdf; https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/14/us/judge-in-alabama-halts-private-probation.html?smid=pl-share) Mayor Theoangelo Perkins was also the mayor of Harpersville when Shelby County Sheriff's Department acted on an order to seize the town's records before the documents could be removed or destroyed.

The Mayor was not available for comment according to the Shelby County Reporter; “Harpersville Mayor Theoangelo Perkins did not immediately return phone messages seeking comment.” (https://www.shelbycountyreporter.com/2012/08/10/sheriffs-deputies-seizing-records-in-harpersville-city-court-case/) The Harpersville Clerk of the Court in a recorded deposition which was reported in an article in The Nation said, “In testimony offered at a deposition, Hall, the court clerk, acknowledged that the sentences Harpersville debtors served at the Shelby County Work Release Center were indefinite.

The sole function of work release was to collect outstanding debt, forgoing the rehabilitative underpinning of most work-release programs.” https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/town-turned-poverty-prison-sentence/) The article also listed that two people died while in custody waiting to pay off their debt to the Harpersville Traffic Court.

All public matriculated students attend schools in the adjacent town of Vincent.

The School's mission statement says, "The vision of Coosa Valley Academy is to provide a college preparatory education in a safe and orderly Christian environment that will instill in each student the desire to fulfill his or her greatest academic potential while encouraging mutual respect among students and staff in order to prepare well-rounded individuals for success in life".

Dual enrollment programs are available for students in grades 10-12 allowing them the opportunity to take online classes at Troy University to earn college credits.

[20] The current enrollment at Coosa Valley Academy stands at 250 students under supervision of 22 teachers.