''For other schools, see
Cleveland High School (disambiguation)''
Cleveland Central High School is a public high school in
Cleveland, Mississippi
Cleveland is a city in Bolivar County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 11,199 as of the 2020 United States Census.
Cleveland has a large commercial economy, with numerous restaurants, stores, and services along U.S. 61. Clevelan ...
. The sole high school of the
Cleveland School District
The Cleveland School District (CSD) is a public school district based in Cleveland, Mississippi (USA).
In addition to Cleveland, the district also serves the towns of Boyle, Renova, and Merigold.
History
In the post-''Brown v. Board of Edu ...
, it serves Cleveland,
Boyle,
Renova, and
Merigold.
The school occupies the grounds of the old Cleveland High School and Margaret Green Junior High School.
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(). Cleveland School District. Retrieved on July 2, 2017. Cleveland Central High School itself was formed in 2017 as a consolidation of
Cleveland High School and
East Side High School after U.S. federal judge
Debra M. Brown ordered that they consolidate, as the schools were accused of being
segregated. The decision was the result of a court case beginning in 1965.
Athletics
Currently, Cleveland Central High School competes in the
Mississippi High School Activities Association
The Mississippi High School Activities Association (MHSAA) is the official sanctioning body of all public and some private junior high and high school academic and athletic competitions in the state of Mississippi. It is a non-profit organizatio ...
(MHSAA) 5A athletics in 13 different sports:
Soccer,
Cross Country,
Track and Field
Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping eve ...
,
Football,
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...
,
Swimming
Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve hydrodynamic thrust that r ...
,
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding t ...
,
Softball
Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...
,
Cheerleading
Cheerleading is an activity in which the participants (called cheerleaders) cheer for their team as a form of encouragement. It can range from chanting slogans to intense physical activity. It can be performed to motivate sports teams, to ente ...
,
Dance,
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Sum ...
,
Powerlifting
Powerlifting is a strength sport that consists of three attempts at maximal weight on three lifts: squat, bench press, and deadlift. As in the sport of Olympic weightlifting, it involves the athlete attempting a maximal weight single-lift effo ...
, and
Bowling
Bowling is a target sport and recreational activity in which a player rolls a ball toward pins (in pin bowling) or another target (in target bowling). The term ''bowling'' usually refers to pin bowling (most commonly ten-pin bowling), thou ...
as well as a competitive
marching
Marching refers to the organized, uniformed, steady walking forward in either rhythmic or route-step time; and, typically, it refers to overland movements on foot of military troops and units under field orders. Marching is often performed t ...
and concert band program.
References
External links
Cleveland Central High School
Public high schools in Mississippi
Schools in Bolivar County, Mississippi
2017 establishments in Mississippi
Educational institutions established in 2017
Cleveland, Mississippi
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