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, wh ...
based in
Greenwood, Mississippi
Greenwood is a city in and the county seat of Leflore County, Mississippi, United States, located at the eastern edge of the Mississippi Delta region, approximately 96 miles north of the state capital, Jackson, and 130 miles south of the riverp ...
, United States.
Effective July 1, 2019 the Greenwood and the
Leflore County School District
The Leflore County School District (LCSD) was a public school district headquartered in Greenwood, Mississippi, United States.
The district served areas in Leflore County outside of the City of Greenwood, including the city of Itta Bena, the town ...
consolidated into the
Greenwood-Leflore School District
Greenwood-Leflore Consolidated School District (GLCSD) is a school district serves Greenwood, Mississippi and the rest of Leflore County. It was established on July 1, 2019, as a merger of the Greenwood Public School District and the Leflore Cou ...
.
History
In 1993, white parents in the Greenwood district made plans to look for majority white private schools after the district leadership proposed having a centralized middle school for all students.
David Jordan, a member of the
Mississippi Senate
The Mississippi Senate is the upper house of the Mississippi Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Mississippi. The Senate, along with the lower Mississippi House of Representatives, convenes at the Mississippi State Capitol ...
, criticized the upcoming Greenwood-Leflore merger since the Leflore district's performance in state tests was worse than that of the Greenwood district; their respective grades from the
Mississippi Department of Education
The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) is the state education agency of Mississippi. It is headquartered in the former Central High School Building at 359 North West Street in Jackson.
The State Superintendent of Education is Carey M. Wr ...
circa 2016-2017 were F and C. Circa 2016 the rating of the Greenwood district was D. Unlike most state-mandated school district consolidations, in which a larger district absorbs a smaller district, in this instance two districts of roughly equal size are merging; in 2016 the Greenwood district had 2,846 students while the Leflore district had 2,405 students. Adam Ganucheau and Zachary Oren Smith of ''
Mississippi Today
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'' described both districts as being "large".
Schools
* Greenwood High School (Grades 9-12)
*Greenwood Middle School (Grades 7-8)
*Bankston Elementary (Grades K-6)
*Davis Elementary (Grades K-6)
*Threadgill Elementary (Grades K-6)
*Threadgill Primary School (Greenwood). It opened in 1935 as W.C. Williams Elementary School. Enrollment was 400 in 2015. In 2015 the closure of the school was proposed. On May 22, 2015, the school board voted to close it, but in 2017 it reopened for grades Pre-Kindergarten-1. By 2019 the school adopted its current name.
Demographics
Around 1988 Greenwood High School was almost split evenly between black and white students. In 1998 it was 92% black. Greenwood Junior High School was 97% black. Many white students were instead going to the private school
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''. August 30, 1998. Retrieved on March 25, 2012.
The district had 2,846 students in 2016, and 2,634 in the 2018-2019 school year.
2006-07 school year
There were a total of 3,110 students enrolled in the Greenwood Public School District during the 2006-2007 school year. The gender makeup of the district was 51% female and 49% male. The racial makeup of the district was 91.64% African American, 7.43% White, 0.48% Hispanic, and 0.45% Asian. All of the district's students were eligible to receive free or price-subsidized lunch.
Previous school years
Accountability statistics
School uniforms
Students at all schools are required to wear
school uniform
A school uniform is a uniform worn by students primarily for a school or otherwise an educational institution.They are common in primary and secondary schools in various countries.
An example of a uniform would be requiring button-down shir ...
s. The policy was established in the 2009-2010 school year.Home " Greenwood Public School District. Retrieved on August 10, 2010.
See also
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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 ...
References
Further reading
* - About the reopening of W. C. Williams (later Threadgill Primary)
U.S. Census Bureau
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