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Tupelo High School is the only public high school in Tupelo, Mississippi. The campus consists of fourteen buildings, including a Performing Arts Center, separate buildings for social studies, English, math, sciences, fine arts, and a self-contained grade-9 building. The current student population of the school is around 2,000 students.
County School Board of New Kent County hastened the desegregation of public schools, private school attendance in the state of Mississippi soared from 23,181 students attending private school in 1968 to 63,242 students in 1970. [41] [42] The subject of desegregation was becoming more inflamed.
Only accredited non-public schools can get state aid including schoolbooks under the state's Blaine amendment; none of the independent schools are accredited. [12] [13] In Jackson, the council schools are all gone. Nevertheless, private Jackson Academy in 2014–2015 was less than ten percent black, in a city that is now 69% African-American. [14]
May 22—TUPELO — More than 400 Tupelo High School graduates crossed the stage to receive their diploma with thousands of family members and friends in the audience at the BancorpSouth Arena on ...
Apr. 2—Tupelo High School will host an in-person graduation ceremony for its Class of 2021 seniors in May, marking a return to pre-pandemic graduation procedures. THS Principal Art Dobbs shared ...
The town's other high school, East Side had 360 students in 2015, 359 of whom were black. The town had exhausted its legal options. In September 2017, it complied with federal court order and combined the high schools as Cleveland Central High School. Three miles away, Bayou Academy, founded in 1964, is also a single color. Demographic data for ...
Sep. 23—TUPELO — Tupelo High School has received a threat for a third day in a row. "A digital threat directed to Tupelo High School has put administrators on high alert and led to increased ...
A training school, or county training school, was a type of segregated school for African American students found in the United States and Canada. In the Southern United States they were established to educate African Americans at elementary and secondary levels, especially as teachers; and in the Northern United States they existed as educational reformatory schools.