Noxubee County High School is the only public
secondary 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 '' secondary education, lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) ...
in
Noxubee County, Mississippi. It is located at 16478 Hwy 45 in
Macon, Mississippi.
Its attendance boundary is all of
Noxubee County.
Athletics
The Noxubee County High School football and basketball teams compete in District 4A. Their mascot is the tiger. The football team won the 2009 and 2012 State Championship. They repeated as champions in 2014 and 2015.
The Noxubee High School Tigers girls basketball team won back to back state titles in 1993-94.
Demographics
As of the 2015 school year, there were 563 students, 99% (558) of whom were black, 3 of whom were Hispanic, and 2 of whom were white. Of these, 560 were eligible for free lunch. 285 students were male, 278 were female.
Notable people
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Buster Barnett, tight end
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Darion Conner
Darion Conner (born September 28, 1967, in Macon, Mississippi) is a former American / arena football linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) and the Arena Football League (AFL). He played for eight seasons in the NFL, from 1990 to 1997 ...
, NFL linebacker
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Omarr Conner,
American football quarterback
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Freddie Joe Nunn
Freddie Joe Nunn (April 9, 1962 October 16, 2021) was an American former professional football player who was selected by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1st round (18th overall) of the 1985 NFL Draft. He started his career as a defensive end and ...
, NFL
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Deontae Skinner
Deontae Skinner (born December 18, 1990) is a former American football linebacker. He played college football at Mississippi State and attended Noxubee County High School in Macon, Mississippi. He has played for the New England Patriots, Phila ...
, NFL linebacker
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Jeffery Simmons, NFL DT,
Tennessee Titans
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Demetries Wells, Free Safety
Jackson State
Jackson State University (Jackson State or JSU) is a public historically black research university in Jackson, Mississippi. It is one of the largest HBCUs in the United States and the fourth largest university in Mississippi in terms of studen ...
References
External links
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Public high schools in Mississippi
Educational institutions in the United States with year of establishment missing
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