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List Of Private Schools In Mississippi
This is a list of private schools in the U.S. state of Mississippi: *Adams County Christian School *Amite School Center *Annunciation Catholic School *Bass Memorial Academy (Boarding) *Bayou Academy *Benedict Day School *Benton Academy *Brookhaven Academy *Calhoun Academy (Mississippi), Calhoun Academy *Calvary Christian School *Canton Academy *Carroll Academy *Cathedral High School *Cedar Lake Christian Academy *Central Academy (Mississippi), Central Academy (Closed) *Central Delta Academy (Closed) *Central Hinds Academy *Central Holmes Christian School *Centreville Academy *Chamberlain-Hunt Academy (Closed) *Christ Covenant School *Christ Missionary and Industrial *Christian Collegiate Academy *Claiborne Educational Foundation *Clinton Christian Academy *Coast Episcopal School *Columbia Academy *Copiah Academy *Cross Creek Christian Academy *Cruger-Tchula Academy (Closed) *Deer Creek School *Delta Academy (Mississippi), Delta Academy *Delta Streets Academy *Desoto County Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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East Holmes Academy
East Holmes Academy (EHA) was a segregation academy in West, Mississippi. The school was founded in 1965 and closed in 2006. In 1989, EHA received national attention after two incidents involving alleged racial discrimination. History Founding In 1965, Holmes county public schools began to desegregate with limited busing programs. As a result, parents began withdrawing their children from public schools and sending them to all white private schools like EHA. In 1969 the trend accelerated when the Supreme Court issued a ruling ordering Holmes county public schools to desegregate immediately. In the 1969–1970 school year, almost every white teacher in Holmes County left the public school system to rejoin their students at segregated private schools. EHA's first board chair, Frank Drake, formerly taught at Inverness High School. Tuition grants For the 1968–69 school year, EHA charged $300 () for tuition. A tuition grant program administered by the State of Mississippi p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Sunflower Academy
North Sunflower Academy is a private school, founded to provide a segregated education for white students in unincorporated Sunflower County, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta area, between Ruleville and Drew. The school has grades Kindergarten through 12. As of 2002, the school draws students from Doddsville, Drew, Merigold, Ruleville, Schlater, Tutwiler, and Webb.No simple solutions to education, workforce training problems. (Focus Delta & River Cities). ''''. May 27, 2002. Retrieved on August 10, 2010. History ...
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Clinton, Mississippi
Clinton is a city in Hinds County, Mississippi, United States. Situated in the Jackson metropolitan area, it is the tenth largest city in Mississippi. The population was 28,100 at the 2020 United States census. History Founded in 1823, Clinton was originally known as Mt. Salus, which means "Mountain of health". It was named for the plantation home of Walter Leake, third governor of Mississippi, which was located in Clinton and built in 1812. The road east from Vicksburg was completed to Mount Salus and the federal government located the district land office at Mount Salus in 1822. The original federal survey in 1822 references a spring called "Swafford's Spring" at the site of the town. In 1828, the city changed its name to Clinton in honor of DeWitt Clinton, the former governor of New York who led completion of the Erie Canal. The first road through Mount Salus/Clinton was the Natchez Trace, improved from a centuries-old Native American path. Currently Clinton has three ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnolia Heights School
Magnolia Heights School is a private school in Senatobia, Mississippi. The school was established in 1970 as a segregation academy Segregation academies are private schools in the Southern United States that were founded in the mid-20th century by white parents to avoid having their children attend desegregated public schools. They were founded between 1954, when the U.S. .... Foundations Magnolia Heights School was founded by Nat G. Troutt, encouraged by a group of citizens who desired segregated education in the Tate county area. In the school's first session in 1970–71, 233 students attended with the first senior class graduating fifteen students on the front campus of the school. School enrollment in the 2015-16 year was 628. In grades 1-12, 5 of 584, or less than 1%, of students were black. The school was part of a wave of segregation academies that opened after the court ordered desegregation of Mississippi public schools. Academics In 2017, the school claimed a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madison-Ridgeland Academy
Madison-Ridgeland Academy (MRA, Madison-Ridgeland) is a private, co-educational school in Madison, Mississippi, for students from K-3 through 12th grade. It was founded in 1969 as a segregation academy. There are 4 divisions; the Kindergarten (K3-K5), the Elementary (1st-5th grade), the Middle School (6th-8th grade), and the High School (9th-12th). History Madison-Ridgeland Academy was established in 1969 as a segregation academy, to serve the communities of Madison, Ridgeland and other surrounding cities. MRA was housed in a Madison church for its first year as a school; the following year the school relocated to their first facility on their 25 acre campus. In 1971, MRA joined the Mississippi Private School Association, a group formed to legitimize segregation academies. In 1970, MRA was one of three segregation academies named in a lawsuit by the NAACP because the state provided public funding enabling the private schools to prolong school segregation. In 2019, Universit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Academy (Mississippi)
Lee Academy is a grade 7–12 private school in Clarksdale, Mississippi. The school opened in 1970 as a segregation academy, with an initial enrollment of 654 students. In 1970, when Clarksdale submitted to integration, the public schools closed for an "integration break". When they reopened after a one-day hiatus, nearly all of the white students transferred to Lee or other segregation academies. As of 1986, the school had never had a black student. The headmaster at the time, Gene Barbor, told a newspaper that the school "would admit blacks as long as they were cultured or want a college prep background. We wouldn't take any shuckers or jivers." In 2001, Bob Edward, the former Clarksdale Municipal School District superintendent, recalled that the opening of Lee Academy was "the worst thing that ever happened to our schools." He explained that when the public schools integrated, white families "ran" to private schools. Many members of the football team at Coahoma County High ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lamar School (Meridian, Mississippi)
Lamar School, is an independent coeducational school located in Meridian, Mississippi, United States founded in 1964 as a segregation academy. It consists of elementary, middle, and high school, and serves grades Pre-K through 12th. The school is located on a site on Lindley Road. History Chartered in 1964, Lamar Elementary opened with grades one through six in 1965. Lamar Middle/High School opened in 1970. The school's name pays tribute to Confederate statesman, slaveholder, and white supremacist L.Q.C. Lamar. The school was established in 1964 as a segregation academy. It was founded as a whites-only establishment, which led to the denial of its tax exemptions, a decision upheld by the United States Supreme Court in 1971. For the 1965-1966 school year, 49% of the schools tuition revenue came from grants provided by the state of Mississippi. In 1969, a federal court ruled that, since, in the court's opinion, the Lamar School would refuse to admit qualified black students, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackson Preparatory School (MS)
Jackson Preparatory School (Jackson Prep) is an independent, coeducational, day school enrolling 700 students in grades five through twelve. The school is located in Flowood, Mississippi, a suburb of Jackson, and has a controversial history as a segregation academy. History The school was founded in 1970 as a segregation academy. A biography of James Meredith cited the school's creation as part of the campaign of massive resistance against the Brown v. Board of Education decision ordering racial integration of public schools. At the time of its founding, a local member of the White Citizen's Council remarked that schools like Jackson Prep were established because the "educational results of such forced interracial congregation are disastrous for children of both the white and black races". A 1973 ''Yale Law Journal'' article characterized Jackson Prep as "second generation segregation academy" since the student body lacked both black and low income white students, but unlike so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackson Academy (Mississippi)
Jackson Academy is a private school in Jackson, Mississippi founded by Loyal M. Bearrs in 1959. Bearss claimed he established the school to teach using an accelerated phonics program he developed, but the school remained completely racially segregated until 1986, including foregoing tax exemption in 1970 to avoid accepting Black students. Today, the school enrolls nearly 1200 students in grades K3 through 12, and is one of the largest independent schools in Mississippi. History In 1959, Loyal Bearss and ten families founded Jackson Academy, with the mission to teach children reading through the use of Bearss' phonics method, Beginning Phonics, developed while Bearss was working as a director of the speech and hearing clinic at University of Southern Mississippi, and as a faculty member at Millsaps College. By November 1960, JA was a private school corporation, jointly owned by the parents of its 49 students, and supervised by a board of directors elected from those parents. The s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indianola Academy
The Indianola Academy is a K-12 private school in Indianola, Mississippi founded as a segregation academy. Indianola Academy comprises an elementary school, a middle school, and a college preparatory high school. Indianola Academy is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit institution. As of 2012 most white teenagers in Indianola attend Indianola Academy instead of the public high schools.Carr, Sarah.In Southern Towns, 'Segregation Academies' Are Still Going Strong" ''The Atlantic''. December 13, 2012. Retrieved on March 29, 2013. History Racial segregation In the post '' Brown v. Board of Education'' era, white Americans in the Indianola area planned to establish a segregation academy. See: p178/ref> Planning for the school began in 1964 with funding from the White Citizens Council. Classes started in 1965 with four sections in grades 1 and 2, with a total of 70 students. For the 1966-1967 and the 1967-1968 school years, classes were held at the First Baptist Church. In the fall of 1967 the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humphreys Academy
Humphreys Academy is a private, nonsectarian, school in Belzoni, Mississippi (United States). Located at 800 Pluck Road in Belzoni, the school serves students in grades K- 12. History Humphreys Academy was established in 1968 as a segregation academy and is a member of the Mississippi Association of Independent Schools. In 1969, $160,000 was raised in three weeks to purchase a facility in Silver City. In 1970, an additional $180,000 was raised to build a metal building in Belzoni which included 16 classrooms. In 1970, the IRS revoked Humphreys Academy's tax exempt status because of its racially discriminatory admissions policies. As of 2016, the school's students were 99% white, while Humphreys County was 75% black. The school athletic teams are nicknamed the Rebels. See also *List of private schools in Mississippi This is a list of private schools in the U.S. state of Mississippi: *Adams County Christian School *Amite School Center *Annunciation Catholic School *Bas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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