Leland High School (Leland, Mississippi) on:
[Wikipedia]
[Google]
[Amazon]
Leland Senior High School (LHS) is a public 
Graduates of Leland High School include former National Football League player
Official Report Card 2010
Mississippi Assessment and Accountability Reporting System dataGreat Schools profile of Leland HS
{{authority control Public high schools in Mississippi Schools in Washington County, Mississippi
high school
A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper seconda ...
in Leland, Mississippi
Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Mexico; to the southwest by Louisiana; and to the northwest by Arkansas. Miss ...
, United States. It educates approximately 336 students in grades nine
9 is a number, numeral, and glyph.
9 or nine may also refer to:
Dates
* AD 9, the ninth year of the AD era
* 9 BC, the ninth year before the AD era
* 9, numerical symbol for the month of September
Places
* Nine, Portugal, a parish in the ...
through twelve. It is a part of the Leland School District
The Leland School District is a public school district based in Leland, Mississippi ( USA).
Schools
* Leland High School
*Leland Elementary School
*Leland School Park
Demographics
2006â07 school year
There were a total of 1,127 students enr ...
. Leland Elementary and Leland School Park feed students into Leland High School.
The school in 1982 graduated its first racially integrated school population from Kâ12, having implemented desegregation in 1970. Leland had a biracial group of parents and school administrators who had encouraged White families to remain in the public school system. By 1992 Leland High School was again majority black. By 1992, many children of White people who had graduated from the integrated Leland school system attended private schools in the Delta. By that time, the black community did not object to the ''de facto
''De facto'' ( ; , "in fact") describes practices that exist in reality, whether or not they are officially recognized by laws or other formal norms. It is commonly used to refer to what happens in practice, in contrast with ''de jure'' ("by la ...
'' segregation that occurred.
Graduates of Leland High School include former National Football League player Johnie Cooks
Johnie Earl Cooks (born November 23, 1958) is a former professional American football player who was drafted by the Baltimore Colts as the second overall pick in the 1982 NFL Draft. A 6'4", . linebacker from Mississippi State University, Coo ...
.
References
Further reading
* William Bert Thompson, ''A History of the Greenville, Mississippi, Public Schools under the Administration of E.E. Bass, 1884-1932.'' MA thesis. University, MS: University of Mississippi, 1968.External links
*Official Report Card 2010
Mississippi Assessment and Accountability Reporting System data
{{authority control Public high schools in Mississippi Schools in Washington County, Mississippi