Livingston High School was a senior high school in

Livingston, Alabama Livingston is a city in and the county seat of Sumter County, Alabama, United States and the home of the University of West Alabama. By an act of the state legislature, it was incorporated on January 10, 1835. At the 2010 census the population w ...

. It was a part of the Sumter County School District. The first African-American students were admitted in 1966. In 1968 97.8% of the students were white and 84.3% of the teachers were white. Due to

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 refer ...

, the percentage of white students dropped to .3% by 1970, as only four white students were enrolled, and about 33% of the teachers were white.Fifteen Years Ago... Rural Alabama Revisited
" The United States Commission on Civil Rights. Clearinghouse Publication Number 82. December 1983. p. 77 or p. 85 (PDF document p. 84/163) Many white students had been placed in

Sumter Academy Sumter Academy was a private segregation academy PK-12 school for white students in unincorporated area, unincorporated Sumter County, Alabama, near York, Alabama, York. It closed in 2017. History Sumter was founded in 1970 as a segregation acade ...

. The football team had a rivalry with

Sumter County High School Sumter County High School was a senior high school in York, Alabama. It was a part of the Sumter County School District. In 1968 the student body was 99.1% white and 90.1% of the teachers were white. Due to white flight White flight or white ...

. The impetus to merge came because of a declining population - the county had a total of 838 students divided between the two high schools in 2009 - as well as the condition of Sumter County High and budget issues. It merged with Sumter County High and became Sumter Central High School in 2011.

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* Schools in Sumter County, Alabama Public high schools in Alabama 2011 disestablishments in Alabama Educational institutions disestablished in 2011 {{Alabama-school-stub