Bibb County School District (Georgia)

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Bibb County School District
Address
484 Mulberry Street
, Georgia, 31201-7931
United States
Coordinates 32°50′12″N83°37′34″W / 32.836693°N 83.626169°W / 32.836693; -83.626169 [1]
District information
GradesPre-school - 12
SuperintendentDan A. Sims [2]
Accreditation(s) AdvancED [3] [4]
Students and staff
Enrollment24,938
Faculty1,383 [3]
Other information
Website www.bcsdk12.net

Bibb County School District is the county government agency which operates the public schools in Bibb County, Georgia, United States.

Contents

List of schools

Elementary schools

There are 21 elementary schools.

Middle schools

There are six middle schools.

High schools

There are six high schools.

Charter schools

Specialty schools

Segregation

Bibb County Schools were segregated, were integrated after court orders, and have been resegregating in recent decades. [8]

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References

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  2. "Superintendent's Office". www.bcsdk12.net. Retrieved November 11, 2022.
  3. 1 2 School Stats, Retrieved May 30, 2010.
  4. "Bibb County School District Receives Notice of Accreditation from AdvancED" (PDF). Accreditation 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 11, 2022. Retrieved November 11, 2022.
  5. "Academy for Classical Education". www.acemacon.org. Retrieved April 23, 2022.
  6. "Cirrus Academy Charter School - Macon, Georgia". Cirrus Academy Charter School. Retrieved April 23, 2022.
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  8. Blankenship, Debbie; Ragusea, Adam (August 17, 2017). "Racial concentration on the rise in Bibb schools" . The Telegraph (Macon, Georgia) . Retrieved November 11, 2022. The proportion of white students attending Bibb County public schools has dropped by more than 40 percent over the last 20 years. At the same time, the population of black students has held relatively steady. When the state released its fall 2016 school enrollment data last month, the Bibb County numbers showed total enrollment of 23,988, with 17,354 of the students identified as black and 4,483 as white. That stands in contrast to 20 years ago, when Bibb's school enrollment was 24,840, with 16,680 students identified as black and 7,829 as white. The racial distribution among the schools has also changed. Central High School, for example, had a racial breakdown of 58.5 percent black and 41.4 white in 1996. Today, that number stands at 92.6 percent black and 7.3 percent white.