Rosa Fort High School

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Rosa Fort High School
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Rosa Fort High School
1100 Rosa Fort Dr, Tunica, MS 38676

United States
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PrincipalValarie Davis
Staff37.47 (FTE) [1]
Grades9–12
GenderCoeducational
Enrollment447 [1]  (2022–2023 [1] )
Student to teacher ratio11.93 [1]
Color(s)Forest green and Vegas gold
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MascotLions
Website www.tunicak12.org/1/Home

Rosa Fort High School (RFHS) is a senior high school in unincorporated Tunica County, Mississippi, [3] adjacent to the North Tunica CDP, [4] and near Tunica (with a Tunica postal address).

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It is a part of the Tunica County School District, which includes all of Tunica County. [5]

History

After the rise of the gambling industry in the county in the 1990s, an influx of tax revenue went into the school system. [6] In 1990, according to a Fortune article about Tunica, one in three students at Tunica's high school graduated from high school. In 1991 no agency tracked graduation rates. According to the Fortune article, while "[m]ore kids are graduating from high school - there's no way to know for sure" whether a significant improvement had been made in the year 2007. [7] Despite the influx of tax revenue, the article argues, Rosa Fort High in 2007 was "a stubborn underperformer." [6] That year, it was ranked a "two" or "underperforming" in the State of Mississippi's five point scale. The article concluded that "Rosa Fort students aren't a whole lot better off academically than before the casinos arrived." [7] Ronald Love, who had been hired by the state in 1997 to supervise the Tunica school system, said "It is like Tunica suffers from a hangover from 100 years of poverty. There are vestiges of it everywhere: in education, in local politics, in the housing. And when you have been the poorest of the poor, well, an infusion of resources might lighten your load, but you still have the hangover." [7]

As of 2010 98% of the students were black. This differed from the private Tunica Academy (formerly Tunica Institute for Learning) a segregation academy founded in the desegregation period, where 97% were white. [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Rosa Fort High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved March 9, 2024.
  2. ↑ "MHSAA School Directory". Mississippi High School Activities Association. Retrieved 2024-03-09.
  3. ↑ Home. Rosa Fort High School. Retrieved on July 8, 2017. " Rosa Fort High School 1100 Rosa Fort Dr, Tunica, MS 38676 "
  4. ↑ "2020 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: North Tunica CDP, MS" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau . Retrieved 2024-03-23. - Compare to the whole street address of the school (in other words, its location).
    "2010 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: North Tunica CDP, MS." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on July 8, 2017.
  5. ↑ "2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Tunica County, MS" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau . Retrieved 2022-07-31. - Text list
  6. 1 2 Mehta, Stephanie N. "Legalized gambling saves a depressed town." Fortune at CNN / Money . March 15, 2007. p. 1. (Archive) Retrieved on June 3, 2013.[ dead link ]
  7. 1 2 3 Mehta, Stephanie N. "Legalized gambling saves a depressed town." Fortune at CNN / Money . March 15, 2007. p. 2. (Archive) Retrieved on June 3, 2013.[ dead link ]
  8. ↑ Dellinger, Matt. Interstate 69: The Unfinished History of the Last Great American Highway. Simon and Schuster, August 24, 2010. ISBN   143917573X, 9781439175736. p. 147.

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