Sumter County School District (Alabama)

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Sumter County School District is a school district operating public schools in Sumter County, Alabama; its headquarters are in Livingston. [1]

A school district is a special-purpose district that operates local public primary and secondary schools in various nations.

Sumter County, Alabama U.S. county in Alabama

Sumter County is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2010 census, the population was 13,763. Its county seat is Livingston. Its name is in honor of General Thomas Sumter of South Carolina.

Livingston, Alabama City in Alabama, United States

Livingston is a city in Sumter County, Alabama, United States. By an act of the state legislature, it was incorporated on January 10, 1835. At the 2010 census the population was 3,485, up from 3,297 in 2000. The city is the county seat of Sumter County, and the home of the University of West Alabama. It was named in honor of Edward Livingston, of the Livingston family of New York.

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History

In 1968 the district's student body was 16.4% white. At the time the county had fourteen public schools, three of which were majority white. White people reacted to the Lee v. Macon County Board of Education case. By 1970, [2] Sumter County Schools had been ordered to de facto desegregate through the courts. White families had immediately moved their children to Sumter Academy, a segregation academy, leaving the public schools majority black. [3] A former chairperson of the school board stated that a successful boycott at Livingston Junior High School in 1978 motivated African-Americans to run for the school board, and in 1980 African-Americans gained three of five school board seats, giving them a majority of the school board. That year the student enrollment was 2% white. [2]

Sumter Academy Private school in Sumter County, Alabama

Sumter Academy was a private PK-12 school in unincorporated Sumter County, Alabama, near York.

Segregation academy

Segregation academies are private schools in the Southern United States that were founded in the mid-20th century by white parents to avoid having their children in desegregated public schools. They were founded between 1954, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregated public schools were unconstitutional, and 1976, when the court ruled similarly about private schools.

In the 2007-2008 school year it had 2,300 students. [4] In 2009 it had 838 high school students, a factor that resulted in it merging its two high schools into one. [5] In 2017 the total enrollment was now 1,500. Eleanor Robinson James, who had retired from being a teacher at Sumter County schools, reported that many parents had placed their children in other counties. [4]

In 2018 the district board attempted to get an injunction against the opening of University Charter School (UCS). [6]

University Charter School (UCS) is a charter school in Lyon Hall, on the campus of the University of West Alabama in Livingston, Alabama.

Schools

Sumter Central High School is a senior high school in unincorporated Sumter County, Alabama, between Livingston and York. It has 85,000 square feet (7,900 m2) of space. It is a part of the Sumter County School District.

Unincorporated area Region of land not governed by own local government

In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not governed by a local municipal corporation; similarly an unincorporated community is a settlement that is not governed by its own local municipal corporation, but rather is administered as part of larger administrative divisions, such as a township, parish, borough, county, city, canton, state, province or country. Occasionally, municipalities dissolve or disincorporate, which may happen if they become fiscally insolvent, and services become the responsibility of a higher administration. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. In most other countries of the world, there are either no unincorporated areas at all, or these are very rare; typically remote, outlying, sparsely populated or uninhabited areas.

Sumter County High School was a senior high school in York, Alabama. It was a part of the Sumter County School District.

Former schools: [11]

Academic performance

Statewide testing ranks the schools in Alabama. Those in the bottom six percent are listed as "failing." As of early 2018, both York West End Junior High School and Sumter Central High School were included in this category. [16]

Extracurricular activities

As of 2016 the district lacked extracurricular programs and did not have any baseball or soccer teams. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ Home. Sumter County School District. Retrieved on January 15, 2019. "716 Country Club Rd [...] Livingston, AL 35470"
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Fifteen Years Ago... Rural Alabama Revisited." The United States Commission on Civil Rights. Clearinghouse Publication Number 82. December 1983. p. 77 or p. 85 (PDF document p. 84/163)
  3. ↑ Farzan, Antonia Noori (2018-08-15). "Sumter County, Ala., just got its first integrated school. Yes, in 2018". Washington Post . Retrieved 2019-01-15.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Struggling Sumter schools face more questions as charter opens". AL.com. 2018-10-15. Retrieved 2019-01-15.
  5. ↑ Reynolds, Brian (2009-02-26). "Sumter County schools may fuse". Tuscaloosa News . Retrieved 2019-01-15.
  6. ↑ Williams, Andrea (2018-07-11). "Sumter County school concerns". WTOK . Retrieved 2019-01-15.
  7. ↑ "Contact." Sumter Central High School. Retrieved on January 15, 2019. "13878 US Highway 11 York, AL 36925 "
  8. ↑ Williams, Andrea (2011-08-09). "Students Attend First Day at Sumter Central High". WTOK . Retrieved 2019-01-15.
  9. ↑ "Contact Us." Sumter County School District. July 1, 2006. Retrieved on January 15, 2019. "Kinterbish Junior High School 5586 Kinterbish 10 Cuba, Alabama 36907"
  10. 1 2 Carsen, Dan (2016-04-22). "School Funding In Alabama: A View From Sumter County". WBHM . Retrieved 2019-01-15.
  11. ↑ "Our Schools." Sumter County School District. July 13, 2006. Retrieved on January 15, 2019.
  12. ↑ "2010 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Panola CDP, AL." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on January 15, 2019.
  13. ↑ "Schools." Sumter County School District. November 14, 2012. Retrieved on January 15, 2019. "Panola Parkway Hwy 34 Panola, Alabama 35477"
  14. ↑ Kampis, Johnny (2003-05-29). "Parents, students express concern over Sumter County schools". Tuscaloosa News . Retrieved 2019-01-15.
  15. 1 2 "SUMTER COUNTY SCHOOLS TO CLOSE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL". WVUA. 2018-04-12. Retrieved 2019-01-15.
  16. ↑ "Failing Alabama public schools: 75 on newest list, most are high schools". AL.COM. 25 January 2018. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
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