Houston Academy

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Houston Academy
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Houston Academy's Main Office entrance
Address
Houston Academy
901 Buena Vista Drive

36303

United States
Coordinates 31°14′40″N85°26′57″W / 31.24444°N 85.44917°W / 31.24444; -85.44917
Information
TypeIndependent
Established1970(54 years ago) (1970)
CEEB code 010910
HeadmasterDr. Vince Janney [1]
Color(s)Royal blue and Columbia blue
MascotRaider
Website www.houstonacademy.com

Houston Academy is a non-profit independent college preparatory school in Dothan, Alabama. The school offers instruction to children from preschool through grade 12. The nineteen acre campus is located on the west side of Dothan in a middle class residential area.

History

The school was founded in 1970 in response to integration of the public schools in Dothan, as a way to maintain segregated schooling under the guise of private education. This history received national attention in 2016, when Bill Clinton revealed in a campaign speech that his wife Hillary Clinton had made an undercover visit to the area investigating segregation academies in 1972. [2] In 1970, the IRS allowed the school to retain its tax exempt status despite its policy of discriminating on racial grounds. [3]

While the school no longer enforces a ban on non-white students, in 2015 only eight black students were enrolled and thirteen percent of the student population were minorities of any kind. [4]

Mark Saliba, the current mayor of Dothan, was a chairman of the school's board from 2007 until 2014. [5]

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References

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  2. Chozik, Amy (December 27, 2015). "How Hillary Clinton Went Undercover to Examine Race in Education". The New York Times. Retrieved November 22, 2016.
    - Clinton, Hillary (2003). Living History. ISBN   9780743260862.
    - Cook, Jim (July 27, 2016). "Houston Academy has changed since Hillary Clinton's 1972 visit". Dothan Eagle. Retrieved November 22, 2016.
  3. "Houston Academy Made Tax-Exempt Status". The Montgomery Advertiser. July 19, 1970. p. 1.
  4. Brantley, Max (December 27, 2015). "Hillary Clinton undercover in the segregationist South in 1972". The Arkansas Times. Retrieved November 22, 2016.
  5. "Mayor's Office | Dothan, AL - Official Website". www.dothan.org. Retrieved February 12, 2023.