Rosa Fort High School (RFHS) is a senior high school in

unincorporated Unincorporated may refer to: * Unincorporated area, land not governed by a local municipality * Unincorporated entity, a type of organization * Unincorporated territories of the United States, territories under U.S. jurisdiction, to which Congress ...

Tunica County, Mississippi Tunica County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,782. Its county seat is Tunica. The county is named for the Tunica Native Americans. Most migrated to central Louisiana during th ...

, adjacent to the North Tunica CDP, and near Tunica. It is a part of the

Tunica County School District The Tunica County School District is a public school district based in Tunica, Mississippi (USA). The district's boundaries parallel that of Tunica County. History Tunica County schools organized in April 1846. The county seat was moved from Co ...

History

After the rise of the gambling industry in the county in the 1990s, an influx of tax revenue went into the school system.Mehta, Stephanie N. "Legalized gambling saves a depressed town." ''

Fortune Fortune may refer to: General * Fortuna or Fortune, the Roman goddess of luck * Luck * Wealth * Fortune, a prediction made in fortune-telling * Fortune, in a fortune cookie Arts and entertainment Film and television * ''The Fortune'' (1931 film) ...

'' at ''

CNN CNN (Cable News Network) is a multinational cable news channel headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the M ...

''/''

Money Money is any item or verifiable record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts, such as taxes, in a particular country or socio-economic context. The primary functions which distinguish money are as ...

''. March 15, 2007. p
1

Retrieved on June 3, 2013. In 1990, according to a ''Fortune'' article about Tunica, one in three students at Tunica's high school graduated from high school. In 1991 no agency tracked graduation rates. Mehta said that therefore that while " re kids are graduating from high school - there's no way to know for sure" whether a significant improvement had been made in the year 2007.Mehta, Stephanie N. "Legalized gambling saves a depressed town." ''

'' at ''

''/''

''. March 15, 2007. p
2

Retrieved on June 3, 2013. Mehta that despite the influx of tax revenue, Rosa Fort High in 2007 was "a stubborn underperformer." That year, it was ranked a "two" or "underperforming" in the State of Mississippi's five point scale. Mehta concluded that "Rosa Fort students aren't a whole lot better off academically than before the casinos arrived." Ronald Love, who had been hired by the state in 1997 to supervise the Tunica school system, said "It is like Tunica suffers from a hangover from 100 years of poverty. There are vestiges of it everywhere: in education, in local politics, in the housing. And when you have been the poorest of the poor, well, an infusion of resources might lighten your load, but you still have the hangover." 98% of the students were black. This differed from the private

Tunica Academy Tunica Academy is a K-12 non-denominational Christian private school located in unincorporated Tunica County, Mississippi, near Tunica. The school was founded in 1964 and has been described as a segregation academy. Tunica Academy is an accredited ...

(formerly Tunica Institute for Learning), where 97% were white.Dellinger, Matt. ''Interstate 69: The Unfinished History of the Last Great American Highway''.

Simon and Schuster Simon & Schuster () is an American publishing company and a subsidiary of Paramount Global. It was founded in New York City on January 2, 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. As of 2016, Simon & Schuster was the third largest publ ...

, August 24, 2010. , 9781439175736. p
147

References

External links

Rosa Fort High School
Schools in Tunica County, Mississippi Public high schools in Mississippi {{Mississippi-school-stub