Greenwood High School (Mississippi)

Greenwood High School
Address
1209 Garrard Avenue[1]
Greenwood, MS, USA 38930-5125
Coordinates 33°30′38″N 90°11′38″W / 33.51056°N 90.19389°W / 33.51056; -90.19389Coordinates: 33°30′38″N 90°11′38″W / 33.51056°N 90.19389°W / 33.51056; -90.19389[2]
Information
Type Comprehensive Public High School
Motto Maximizing Student Potential
School district Greenwood Public School District
Principal Lorita Harris
Faculty 41.05 (on FTE basis, as of 2014-15)[1]
Grades 9 to 12
Gender coed
Enrollment 752 (as of 2014-15)[1]
Website Official website

Greenwood High School is a public high school located in Greenwood, Leflore County, in the U.S. state of Mississippi. The school is part of the Greenwood Public School District.

History

Greenwood High School

Location

Greenwood, Mississippi, is a town of slightly over 15,000 residents located on the banks of the Yazoo River about 130 miles (210 km) south of Memphis, Tennessee, and about 95 miles (153 km) north of Jackson, Mississippi. The city and county are named after Greenwood Leflore, the designated leader of the Choctaw nation who ceded Mississippi land under pressure of the 1830 Indian Removal Act to the United States government in exchange for a land allotment in today's state of Oklahoma.

De Jure segregation years

Greenwood was the original home of the White Citizen's Council, a white supremacist organization established in the summer of 1954 in response to a national trend towards racial integration and civil rights for African-Americans which culminated in the landmark 1955 Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education.[3]

During this period the town of Greenwood's high school students attended Broad Street High School, the site of today's Threadgill Elementary School — including most notably in its Class of 1955 Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman.[4]

Academics

In 2012 Greenwood High School was attended by nearly 770 students.[5] The school features a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.8 to 1.[5] The school nickname is the Bulldogs.

According to U.S. News and World Report, for the 200910 school year Greenwood High School's student body of 719 students was 98 percent of African-American ethnicity and about 1 percent European-American.[6]

Greenwood High School was one of the first two public high schools in the state of Mississippi to earn accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.[7]

Notable alumni

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 3 "School Directory Information (2014-2015 school year)". U.S. Department of Education. Retrieved November 2015. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Greenwood High School
  3. "White Citizen's Councils Aimed to Maintain 'Southern Way of Life,'" Jackson Sun, Jackson, TN, 2003.
  4. "Morgan Freeman: Full Biography," All Movie Guide, via New York Times. Retrieved October 9, 2012.
  5. 1 2 "High Schools in Greenwood, MS," HighSchools.com, Retrieved October 9, 2012.
  6. "Greenwood High: Student Body," U.S. News and World Report: Education, www.usnews.com/
  7. Greenwood High School official website, www.greenwood.k12.ms.us/ Retrieved October 9, 2012.
  8. Abbott, Dorothy R. (1986). Mississippi Writers: Reflections of Childhood and Youth. University Press of Mississippi. p. 697.
  9. Nossiter, Adam (2009). Of Long Memory: Mississippi and the Murder of Medgar Evers. Da Capo Press. p. 116.
  10. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005. Government Printing Office. 2005. p. 1082.
  11. Ellis, Lee (2004). Who's Who of NASA Astronauts. Americana Group Publishing. p. 442.
  12. Congressional Record, V. 152, Pt. 6, May 8, 2006 to May 17, 2006. Government Printing Office. 2006. p. 8087.
  13. "Once Unwanted, Hull Anchors Line". Wilmington Morning Star. January 5, 1989.
  14. "Argos Bring In Some Lemon-Aid - Boatmen Sign QB Cleo Lemon". Our Sports Central. March 17, 2010.
  15. Amy, Jeff (November 21, 2015). "Millsaps College Says Senior Wins Rhodes Scholarship". ABC News.
  16. Schueler, Donald G. (1980). Preserving the Pascagoula. University Press of Mississippi. p. 19.

Further reading

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