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The school offers a curriculum containing 160 Carnegie units, 24 of which are Advanced Placement. Tupelo High School is a two-time National Blue Ribbon School award winner, having won the award in 1983-1984 and another in 1999–2000. [4] The school's boundary includes the vast majority of Tupelo and a portion of Saltillo. [5]
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There were a total of 7,190 students enrolled in the Tupelo Public School District during the 2006–2007 school year. The gender makeup of the district was 50% female and 50% male. The racial makeup of the district was 46.24% African American, 49.86% White, 2.21% Hispanic, 1.66% Asian, and 0.03% Native American.
In 2008, Sports Illustrated ranked the high school athletic department as the third-best high school athletic program in the nation. Tupelo High School is the largest public high school in Mississippi with a total of 1,931 students enrolled during the 2018–2019 school year. [60] [61] Some portions of Tupelo are zoned to the Lee County School ...
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In the fall of 1967, Tupelo instituted a "choice" system, whereby students at all-white Tupelo High School and all-black Carver High School were given the opportunity to choose which school to attend. While no white students chose Carver, Dowsing was one of five African-American students who chose to attend Tupelo High School, and was the first ...
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A native of Tupelo, Mississippi, he attended Tupelo High School and then played college football for Ole Miss from 1957 to 1959. [1] [2] He was a co-captain of the 1959 Ole Miss Rebels football team that compiled a 10–1 record, gave up only 21 points during the entire season, and was recognized as national champion. [3]