| Autauga Academy | |
|---|---|
| Address | |
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497 Golson Road 36067 United States | |
| Coordinates | 32°28′18″N86°32′44″W / 32.4716102°N 86.5454269°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Private |
| Founded | 1969 |
| CEEB code | 012218 |
| NCES School ID | 00002722 |
| Faculty | 21.3 [1] |
| Grades | PK-12 |
| Enrollment | 306 (2016 [1] ) |
| Color(s) | |
| Mascot | General |
| Nickname | Generals |
| Website | www |
Autauga Academy is a private coed PK-12 school in Prattville, Alabama, the seat of Autauga County.
Autauga Private Academy was founded in 1969 as a segregation academy. [2] It is distinct from a seminary of the same name founded in 1888. [3]
Autauga attracted the attention of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, prompting an inspection tour in 1982, along with eight other schools in Alabama [4]
In 2011, a black student, O. J. Howard, was told by the headmaster of the school he could not bring a girl to the prom because she was white. [2]
Since then, the headmaster of 2011 has been fired and replaced with a new one.
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Autauga County is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2020 census the population was 58,805. Its county seat is Prattville.
Prattville is a city located within both Autauga and Elmore counties in the State of Alabama but serves as the county seat of Autauga County. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 37,781. Nicknamed "The Fountain City" due to the many artesian wells in the area, Prattville is part of the Montgomery metropolitan statistical area.
Millbrook is a city in Autauga and Elmore counties in the U.S. state of Alabama. The population was 16,564 at the 2020 census, up from 14,640 in 2010. It is part of the Montgomery Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. It was a foundational event in the civil rights movement in the United States. The campaign lasted from December 5, 1955—the Monday after Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, was arrested for her refusal to surrender her seat to a white person—to December 20, 1956, when the federal ruling Browder v. Gayle took effect, and led to a United States Supreme Court decision that declared the Alabama and Montgomery laws that segregated buses were unconstitutional.
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Glenwood School is a co-educational private for pupils from grades K1 through 12. The school is located in Smiths Station, Alabama in southeastern Lee County. It serves 577 students. The school is accredited by both the Alabama Independent School Association and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. It was founded in 1970 as a segregation academy. In October 2023, it was announced that Glenwood would be joining the Alabama High School Athletic Association, alongside with three other AISA schools Autauga Academy, Lee-Scott Academy, and Pickens Academy starting with the 2024-25 school year. According to the AHSAA's website for the 2024-26 classifications, both Glenwood and Lee-Scott Academy would be in Class 3A while both Autauga Academy and Pickens Academy will be in Class 1A.
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