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Starkville Public School District
The Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District (SOCSD), formerly Starkville Public School District, is a public school district in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, headquartered in Starkville. The district serves all children within the county, including Starkville, residents of Mississippi State University, and the other communities and rural areas countywide due to the state legislature mandated consolidation with the Oktibbeha County School District in 2015. History When federal mandates forced schools to integrate, Oktibbeha County realigned the school districts so that the Starkville School District (SSD) occupied the affluent neighborhoods surrounding Starkville, which was the center of Oktibbeha County, and included the majority of the tax base. The remaining fringes of the county were relegated to the Oktibbeha County School District (OCSD), which was poor, underfunded, failing, and over 90% black. Over the next few decades, the SSD became racially mixed, while the ...
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School District
A school district is a special-purpose district that operates local public primary and secondary schools in various nations. North America United States In the U.S, most K–12 public schools function as units of local school districts, which usually operate several schools, and the largest urban and suburban districts operate hundreds of schools. While practice varies significantly by state (and in some cases, within a state), most American school districts operate as independent local governmental units under a grant of authority and within geographic limits created by state law. The executive and legislative power over locally controlled policies and operations of an independent school district are, in most cases, held by a school district's board of education. Depending on state law, members of a local board of education (often referred to informally as a school board) may be elected, appointed by a political office holder, serve ex officio, or a combination of any of ...
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Starkville High School
Starkville High School (SHS) is a public secondary school in Starkville, Mississippi, United States. It is the only high school in the Starkville Oktibbeha Consolidated School District, serving grades 9–12. It offers more than 140 courses, including over 10 Advanced Placement courses. Its school colors are black and gold, and its mascot is the Yellowjacket, a predatory wasp. For the 2018–2019 academic year the graduation rate was 86.3% and the enrollment was 1,420. The consolidated school district serves all of the county. The previous Starkville School District served Starkville, the Mississippi State University census-designated place, Longview, and some other unincorporated areas. History A school was built for white students in 1899. The initial enrollment was 206, with an average attendance of 164. By 1910 the enrollment had grown to 312 and the average attendance to 270, due both to the increased number of residents and the superiority of the school causing cou ...
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Education In Oktibbeha County, Mississippi
Education is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty. Various researchers emphasize the role of critical thinking in order to distinguish education from indoctrination. Some theorists require that education results in an improvement of the student while others prefer a value-neutral definition of the term. In a slightly different sense, education may also refer, not to the process, but to the product of this process: the mental states and dispositions possessed by educated people. Education originated as the transmission of cultural heritage from one generation to the next. Today, educational goals increasingly encompass new ideas such as the liberation of learners, skills needed for modern society, empathy, and complex vocational skills. Types of education are commonly divided into formal, ...
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List Of School Districts In Mississippi
This is a list of school districts in Mississippi. Alcorn County *Alcorn School District * Corinth School District Attala County * Attala County School District * Kosciusko School District Bolivar County *Cleveland School District *North Bolivar Consolidated School District *West Bolivar Consolidated School District Chickasaw County *Chickasaw County School District *Okolona Municipal Separate School District Clarke County * Enterprise School District *Quitman School District Coahoma County *Clarksdale Municipal School District * Coahoma County School District Copiah County * Copiah County School District * Hazlehurst City School District Forrest County * Forrest County Agricultural High School *Forrest County School District *Hattiesburg Public School District * Petal School District Hancock County *Bay St. Louis-Waveland School District * Hancock County School District Harrison County *Biloxi Public School District * Gulfport School District *Harrison ...
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Microsoft Excel
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Sturgis, Mississippi
Sturgis is a town in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi. The population was 207 at the 2020 census. Sturgis annually hosts "The Rally", an all-bike motorcycle rally, also known as the Little Sturgis Rally. According to Scott Smith, former Mayor of Sturgis, in 2005 around 20,000 visitors attended that year's rally. The most recent was August 2022 after a hiatus of 2 years due to COVID-19 concerns. Geography Sturgis is located at (33.344027, -89.046618). According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all land. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 206 people, 83 households, and 61 families residing in the town. The population density was 158.3 people per square mile (61.2/km). There were 92 housing units at an average density of 70.7 per square mile (27.3/km). The racial makeup of the town was 93.69% White, 5.83% African American, 0.49% from other races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.97% of the population. There were 83 households, o ...
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National Blue Ribbon School
The National Blue Ribbon Schools Program is a United States Department of Education award program that recognizes exemplary public and non-public schools on a yearly basis. Using standards of excellence evidenced by student achievement measures, the Department honors high-performing schools and schools that are making great strides in closing any achievement gaps between students. The U.S. Department of Education is responsible for administering the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program, which is supported through ongoing collaboration with the National Association of Elementary School Principals, Association for Middle Level Education, and the National Association of Secondary School Principals. Since the program's founding in 1982, the award has been presented to more than 9,000 schools. National Blue Ribbon Schools represent the full diversity of American schools: public schools including Title I schools, charter schools, magnet schools, and non-public schools including paroc ...
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Longview, Mississippi
Longview is a census-designated place and unincorporated community located along Mississippi Highway 12 in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi. Longview is approximately southwest of Starkville and approximately northeast of Sturgis. It was first named as a CDP in the 2020 Census which listed a population of 295. Demographics 2020 census ''Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos can be of any race.'' Education It is in the Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District, which operates Starkville High School Starkville High School (SHS) is a public secondary school in Starkville, Mississippi, United States. It is the only high school in the Starkville Oktibbeha Consolidated School District, serving grades 9–12. It offers more than 140 courses, .... It was in the Starkville School District prior to the merger with Oktibehha C ...
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Starkville Academy
Starkville Academy (SA) is a private kindergarten through 12th grade school in Starkville, Mississippi, operated by the Oktibbeha Educational Foundation. It was founded in 1969 on property adjacent to Starkville High School as a segregation academy. History Before 1969, Starkville maintained a dual system of education, with Black students attending Oktibbeha County Training School (which was later renamed Henderson High School in an attempt to encourage Black students to attend there), while White students attended much better-funded Starkville High School. When the federal government enforced school integration, many white parents sought ways to keep their children from attending schools alongside Black students. Starkville Academy was founded in 1969 to provide white children a segregated education. According to legislator Horace Harned, "We felt that this esegregation/nowiki> would destroy the effectiveness of our public schools and that we must act to oppose and, if possibl ...
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White Flight
White flight or white exodus is the sudden or gradual large-scale migration of white people from areas becoming more racially or ethnoculturally diverse. Starting in the 1950s and 1960s, the terms became popular in the United States. They referred to the large-scale migration of people of various European ancestries from racially mixed urban regions to more racially homogeneous suburban or exurban regions. The term has more recently been applied to other migrations by whites, from older, inner suburbs to rural areas, as well as from the U.S. Northeast and Midwest to the milder climate in the Southeast and Southwest. The term 'white flight' has also been used for large-scale post-colonial emigration of whites from Africa, or parts of that continent, driven by levels of violent crime and anti-colonial or anti-white state policies. Migration of middle-class white populations was observed during the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s out of cities such as Cleveland, D ...
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West Oktibbeha County High School
West Oktibbeha County High School (WOCHS) was a public secondary school located in Maben, Mississippi.Home page
West Oktibbeha County High School. May 15, 2010. Retrieved on July 3, 2017. "Mailing Address: East Oktibbeha County High School 1780 Moor High Rd. Crawford, MS 39743" It was a part of the , formed by the consolidation of two high schools that had originally been segregated: formerly all-white and the once all-black ...
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Oktibbeha County
Oktibbeha County is a county in the east central portion of the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census the population was 51,788. The county seat is Starkville. The county's name is derived from a local Native American word meaning either "bloody water" or "icy creek". The Choctaw had long occupied much of this territory prior to European exploration and United States acquisition. Mississippi State University, a public research university and land-grant institution, is in Oktibbeha County. Oktibbeha County is conterminous with the Starkville, MS Micropolitian Statistical Area. The county is part of the Golden Triangle region of Mississippi, designated for joint regional development strategies. History The name ''Oktibbeha'' is a Native American word meaning either "bloody water" (because of a battle fought on the banks) or possibly "icy creek". Indian artifacts more than 2,000 years old have been found near ancient earthwork mounds located just east of Starkvil ...
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