Amanda Elzy High School

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Amanda Elzy High School
Location
Amanda Elzy High School
Greenwood, Mississippi postal address

United States
Coordinates 33°30′02″N90°10′06″W / 33.50056°N 90.16833°W / 33.50056; -90.16833
Information
Opened1959
School district Greenwood-Leflore Consolidated School District (2019-)
Leflore County School District (-2019)
Teaching staff29.73 (FTE) [1]
Grades9–12
Enrollment387 (2023–2024) [1]
Student to teacher ratio13.02 [1]
Color(s)Royal blue and gold
   [2]
Team namePanthers
Website aehs.glcsd.org

Amanda Elzy High School (AEHS) is a high school in unincorporated Leflore County, Mississippi, south of Greenwood, [3] and part of the Greenwood-Leflore Consolidated School District. [4]

Contents

As of the 2013–2014 school year, it had 488 students in grades 9–12 and 36.37 teachers (full-time equivalent). [5]

Its service area includes Minter City, Money, Sidon, and Schlater. [6]

History

The school was named in 1959 in honor of Amanda Elzy, a pioneering black educator. [7] : 191–192 

It was a part of the Leflore County School District until that district's merger into Greenwood-Leflore Consolidated School District on July 1, 2019. [8]

Demographics

In the 2012–2013 school year, the demographic profile of the student body was 492 black students, 5 Hispanic students and 2 white students. [5]

In 2014, its students were reported as 100% "economically disadvantaged." [9]

Discipline

By 2010 the school began to only issue detentions for physical altercations, with a choice of either Saturdays or after school, instead of all day in-school suspensions. [10]

Notable alumni

The school is mentioned frequently in Richard Rubin's book Confederacy of Silence . [17]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Amanda Elzy High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved December 15, 2024.
  2. ↑ "MHSAA School Directory". Mississippi High School Activities Association. Retrieved March 9, 2024.
  3. ↑ Home page. Amanda Elzy High School. Retrieved on July 3, 2017. "604 Elzy Avenue, Greenwood, MS 38930"
  4. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Elzy School
  5. 1 2 "Amanda Elzy High School". School Directory Information. U.S. Department of Education.
  6. ↑ "School Profile". Greenwood-Leflore Consolidated School District. Archived from the original on August 8, 2020. Retrieved May 18, 2021. from the rural areas of Greenwood including the towns of [...] Slaughter[...] - The page states "Schlater" as being "Slaughter".
  7. ↑ Weaver, David E (2004). Black Diva of the Thirties: the life of Ruby Elzy . University Press of Mississippi. ISBN   9781604737653 . Retrieved February 9, 2015. weaver black diva.
  8. ↑ "School District Consolidation in Mississippi Archived 2017-07-02 at the Wayback Machine ." Mississippi Professional Educators. December 2016. Retrieved on July 2, 2017. Page 2 (PDF p. 3/6).
  9. ↑ "Amanda Elzy High School: Student Body". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved February 9, 2015.
  10. ↑ Darden, Bob (January 16, 2010). "Fights disrupt Elzy". Greenwood Commonwealth . Retrieved March 28, 2022.
  11. ↑ "Oral history with Ms. Lusia Harris-Stewart". University of Southern Mississippi. December 18, 1999. Archived from the original on August 29, 2010. Retrieved February 9, 2015.
  12. ↑ "Lusia Harris Stewart". Women's Basketball Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on September 19, 2015. Retrieved February 9, 2015.
  13. ↑ "Gerald Glass". basketball-reference.com. Retrieved February 9, 2015.
  14. ↑ Flynn, Bryan (August 1, 2013). "2013 Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame Class". Jackson Free Press.
  15. ↑ "Alphonso Ford". databaseBasketball.com. Archived from the original on February 9, 2015. Retrieved February 9, 2015.
  16. ↑ "Leroy Jones". hraashof.org. Archived from the original on January 27, 2014. Retrieved January 27, 2014.
  17. ↑ Rubin, Richard (2010). Confederacy of Silence: A True Tale of the New Old South. Simon and Schuster. pp. 53, 113, 201. ISBN   9781451602654.
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