Erwin Middle School is located in the eastern section of Jefferson County in Center Point, Alabama. It was formerly Erwin High School.

In 1957 the Jefferson County Board of Education purchased 38.38 acres of land from Sun Valley Acres, Inc. for the purpose of building a junior high school. This land company donated another twenty acres, making a total school acreage of 53.38 acres. The junior high school building consisted of twelve classrooms and a principal's office.

A four-classroom annex and a locker room for physical education classes were added to the junior high area in 1963. At the end of the first year of school, there were 240 students enrolled in the junior high (grades 7-9).