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[3] [4] As of July 1, 2012, the Drew School District and Indianola School District were consolidated into the Sunflower County district. [5] The former Drew school district's attendance boundary included Drew , Rome , and the employee residences of the Mississippi State Penitentiary (MSP, Parchman), located in an unincorporated area . [ 6 ]
The Indianola School District is a former public school district based in Indianola, Mississippi . In July 2014, it was merged into the Sunflower County Consolidated School District . [ 1 ]
As of 1996, nearly 90% of Indianola's public school students were of African-American ethnic heritage. [4] Meanwhile, Indianola Academy's student body, which numbered between 500 and 1,000 students over the school's first three decades of existence, included only 4 or 5 black students during that entire time.
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The district operates two other 10-12 schools in the city, Indianola Career and Technical Center and Indianola Academic Achievement Academy. [20] Indianola Academy, a private school and former segregation academy, is in Indianola. As of 2012 most white teenagers in Indianola attend Indianola Academy instead of the public high schools.
Mississippi K-12 public school districts violated a federal act by administering state testing to more than the allotted 1% of students designated for “alternative” testing because of severe ...
[33] Later that month, the State Board of Education approved the consolidation of the Drew School District and the Sunflower County School District, and if Senate Bill 2330 is approved, Indianola School District will be added. [34] In May 2012 Governor of Mississippi Phil Bryant signed the bill into law, requiring all three districts to ...
Mississippi lawmakers have passed a bill to modify the state’s public education funding formula through the Senate Education Committee, while a separate bill has been filed in the House to ...