Sumter County High School was a senior high school in
York, Alabama
York is a city in Sumter County, Alabama, United States. Founded around 1838 after the merging of two communities, Old Anvil and New York Station, the latter a station on a stagecoach line. The rail came through in the 1850s and later, the "New ...
. 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 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 ...
, no white students remained by 1970, 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.
The football team had a rivalry with that of
Livingston High School. 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 Livingston 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
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