Greenwood High School (Mississippi)

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Greenwood High School
Address
Greenwood High School (Mississippi)
1209 Garrard Avenue [1]

Greenwood
,
MS
38930-5125

United States
Coordinates 33°30′38″N90°11′38″W / 33.51056°N 90.19389°W / 33.51056; -90.19389 [2]
Information
Type Comprehensive public high school
MottoMaximizing Student Potential
School district Greenwood-Leflore Consolidated School District (2019–)
Greenwood Public School District
PrincipalKevin Pulley
Teaching staff40.84 (FTE) [3]
Grades 9-12
Gender coed
Enrollment660 (2023–2024) [3]
Student to teacher ratio16.16 [3]
Color(s)Maroon and white   
Team nameBulldogs
Website gh.glcsd.org

Greenwood High School (GHS) is a public high school located in Greenwood, Leflore County, in the U.S. state of Mississippi. The school is part of the Greenwood-Leflore Consolidated School District.

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History

An early 20th century illustration of the former Greenwood High School building Greenwood High School.jpg
An early 20th century illustration of the former Greenwood High School building

The school was reserved for white students only from its founding until 1969, when two African-American students, Marcel Gulledge and Milbertha Teague, walked past a crowd of jeering students and entered the school.[ citation needed ] It was a part of the Greenwood Public School District until 2019, when that district merged into Greenwood-Leflore CSD. [4]

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. [5]

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. [6] [7]

Academics

In 2012 Greenwood High School was attended by nearly 770 students. [8] The school features a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.8 to 1. [8] The school nickname is the Bulldogs.

According to U.S. News & World Report, for the 2009–10 school year Greenwood High School's student body of 719 students was 98 percent of African-American ethnicity and about 1 percent White American. [9]

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. [10]

Demographics

Around 1988 Greenwood High School was almost split evenly between black and white students. In 1998 it was 92% black. Many white students were instead going to the private school Pillow Academy. [11]

Academic performance

The Mississippi Department of Education gave the school an "F" grade for the 2013–14 school year. In the period circa 2010–2015 the graduation rate was 67.4%. [12]

Notable alumni

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "School Directory Information (2014–15 school year)". U.S. Department of Education. Retrieved November 22, 2015.
  2. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Greenwood High School
  3. 1 2 3 "Greenwood High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved December 27, 2024.
  4. ↑ "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).
  5. ↑ "White Citizen's Councils Aimed to Maintain 'Southern Way of Life,'" Archived 2017-10-13 at the Wayback Machine Jackson Sun, Jackson, TN, 2003.
  6. ↑ "Morgan Freeman: Full Biography," All Movie Guide, via New York Times. Retrieved October 9, 2012.
  7. ↑ "Milbertha Tigue". Clarion-Ledger. July 9, 1995. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
  8. 1 2 "High Schools in Greenwood, MS," HighSchools.com, Retrieved October 9, 2012.
  9. ↑ "Greenwood High: Student Body," U.S. News & World Report: Education, www.usnews.com/
  10. ↑ Greenwood High School official website Archived 2011-08-27 at the Wayback Machine , www.greenwood.k12.ms.us/ Retrieved October 9, 2012.
  11. ↑ Rubin, Richard. "Should the Mississippi Files Have Been Re-opened? No, because." The New York Times . August 30, 1998. Retrieved on March 25, 2012.
  12. ↑ Yerkey, Gary G. (2015-11-12). "T.Mac Howard opened a school for disadvantaged youths in a small Southern city". Christian Science Monitor . Retrieved 2018-09-17.
  13. ↑ Nossiter, Adam (2009). Of Long Memory: Mississippi and the Murder of Medgar Evers. Da Capo Press. p. 116. ISBN   9780786748488.
  14. ↑ Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005. Government Printing Office. 2005. p. 1082. ISBN   9780160731761.
  15. ↑ "Once Unwanted, Hull Anchors Line". Wilmington Morning Star. January 5, 1989.
  16. ↑ "Argos Bring In Some Lemon-Aid - Boatmen Sign QB Cleo Lemon". Our Sports Central. March 17, 2010.

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