Nathanael Greene Academy

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Nathanael Greene Academy
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Coordinates 33°31′53″N83°04′33″W / 33.531267°N 83.0757858°W / 33.531267; -83.0757858
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TypePrivate
Religious affiliation(s)Nonsectarian
Established1969;55 years ago (1969)
NCES School ID 00297259 [1]
Faculty20 (on an FTE basis) [1]
Enrollment101 [1]  (2018)
Student to teacher ratio4.8 [1]
Website nathanaelgreeneacademy.com

Nathanael Greene Academy is a private PK-12 school in Siloam, Georgia, a small town in Greene County.

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History

Nathanael Greene Academy was founded in 1969 as a segregation academy. Its original campus of five acres (2.0 ha) and three buildings was purchased from the town of Siloam for $100 and subsequently valued for tax purposes at $24,000. In its first year of operations it had no black students or teachers. [2]

Student body

In 2018, the school had 3 Black, and no Asian or Hispanic students. [1] Surrounding Greene County has a population that is about 40% Black. [3] For the 2018–19 school year, the student body included a low percentage of minority students. [4]

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References

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  2. Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity, United States. Congress. Senate. (1970). Equal Educational Opportunity: Hearings Before the Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity, Ninety-first Congress, Second Session-92nd Congress, First Session, Volume 10. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 2012,2018,2120. Retrieved 14 January 2018. No Negro students applied.
  3. "DP02 SELECTED SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS IN THE UNITED STATES – 2006-2010 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on 2020-02-13. Retrieved 2015-12-29.
  4. Felton, Emmanuel (June 17, 2018). "'It's like a black and white thing': How some elite charter schools exclude minorities". NBCNews. The Hechinger Report. Retrieved 31 May 2019.