Lanier Junior Senior High School

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Lanier Junior Senior High School
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Lanier Junior Senior High School
833 West Maple Street

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School type Secondary
Motto"Enhancing Today's Minds to Lead Tomorrow's Future."
Established1925 [1]
School district Jackson Public School District
SuperintendentCedric Gray [2]
PrincipalMRS. STACEY WEBB BAILEY
Staff46.90 (FTE) [3]
Enrollment603 (2022–23) [3]
Student to teacher ratio12.86 [3]
Color(s)Maroon and white   [4]
Mascot Bulldog
Feeder schoolsRowan Middle School
Website Official website

Lanier Junior Senior High School, formerly W. H. Lanier High School, is a public middle and high school located in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. It is part of the Jackson Public School District. The current principal is Valerie Bradley. [5] There were a total of 872 students enrolled in Lanier High, then only a high school, during the 2006–2007 school year. The gender makeup of the district was 52% female and 48% male. The racial makeup of the school is 100% African American. [6]

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History

Lanier was founded in 1925 as a junior and senior high school. It was named after William Henry Lanier (1855–1929), who was superintendent of black schools in Jackson from 1912 until his death. [1] Due to segregation, Lanier was reserved for black students until 1969, [7] when Jackson schools were integrated by law. [8]

In 2023, Brinkley Middle consolidated into Lanier High. [9]

Feeder pattern

The following schools fed into Lanier High School as of 2007. [10]

Notable alumni

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References

  1. 1 2 "School History". Lanier High School. Jackson (MS) Public Schools. Retrieved October 20, 2017. Lanier was first organized as a junior-senior high school in 1925 providing instruction for pupils from the seventh through the twelfth grades.
  2. "Superintendent" . Retrieved December 17, 2008.
  3. 1 2 3 "Lanier High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved August 2, 2024.
  4. "MHSAA School Directory". Mississippi High School Activities Association. Retrieved March 9, 2024.
  5. "Administration / Principal". http. Retrieved November 2, 2019.
  6. "Mississippi Assessment and Accountability Reporting System". Office of Research and Statistics, Mississippi Department of Education. Archived from the original on March 23, 2007.
  7. Dreher, Arielle (November 15, 2017). "How Integration Failed in Jackson's Public Schools from 1969 to 2017". Jackson Free Press .
  8. Taylor, Ayana (May 12, 2004). "JPS, Then and Now". Jackson Free Press . Retrieved November 18, 2019.
  9. Jackson, Torsheta (July 25, 2023). "Two Jackson Public Schools Merge, Creating the District's First 7-12 Institution in Years". Mississippi Free Press . Retrieved August 27, 2024.
  10. Feeder Patterns Archived October 11, 2007, at the Wayback Machine – Jackson Public Schools.
  11. [http://themississippilink.com/wp- content/uploads/2012/01/July-10-2014.pdf Jackson's 'Legends of Basketball' reunion brings together Brinkley, Jim Hill and Lanier high school players who 'ruled the court']
  12. Rayson, Ann. "Richard Wright's Life." Modern American Poetry. Nelson, Cary and Brinkman, Bartholomew, eds. Department of English, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: 2001.

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