Humphreys County High School | |
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Address | |
700 Cohn Street , , 39038 United States | |
Coordinates | 33°11′08″N90°29′05″W / 33.1856°N 90.4848°W |
Information | |
Type | Public high school |
Principal | Samuel Matthews |
Staff | 28.48 (FTE) [1] |
Enrollment | 424 [1] (2022-23) |
Student to teacher ratio | 14.89 [1] |
Color(s) | Blue and white [2] |
Mascot | Cowboys [2] |
Website |
Humphreys County High School (HCHS) is a public senior high school in Belzoni, Mississippi, United States and a part of the Humphreys County School District.
The attendance boundary of the school district, and therefore the school's attendance boundary, is all of Humphreys County. [3]
After the school integrated racially (sometime around 1970), black students had protested against verbal abuse used against black students by the principal, a white person; white teachers giving failing grades to black students; and the calling of black students "nigger" and "nigra". [4]
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