Tupelo High School | |
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United States | |
Coordinates | US_type:edu 34°13′55″N88°45′50″W / 34.232°N 88.764°W |
Information | |
Type | Public |
Established | 1914 |
School district | Tupelo Public School District |
Principal | Melissa Thomas |
Faculty | 116.28 (on FTE basis) [1] |
Grades | 9 to 12 |
Gender | Co-ed |
Enrollment | 2,030 [1] (201`–2`) |
Student to teacher ratio | 17.46 [1] |
Color(s) | Blue and Gold |
Mascot | Golden Wave |
Accreditation | Southern Association of Colleges and Schools [2] |
Newspaper | The Hi-Times [3] |
Yearbook | The Album |
Website | www |
Tupelo High School is the only public high school in Tupelo, Mississippi. The campus consists of fourteen buildings, including a Performing Arts Center, separate buildings for social studies, English, math, sciences, fine arts, and a self-contained grade-9 building. The current student population of the school is about 1,995. As of 2014–2015, it is the largest enrolled public high school in the state of Mississippi. The class of 2015 consisted of 438 graduates. The school offers a curriculum containing 160 Carnegie units, 24 of which are Advanced Placement.
Tupelo High School is a two-time National Blue Ribbon School award winner, having won the award in 1983-1984 and another in 1999–2000. [4]
The school's boundary includes the vast majority of Tupelo and a portion of Saltillo. [5]
Until 1971 and desegregation, Black students in Tupelo attended Lee County Training School and then Carver High School. The segregated schools alternated nights using Robins Field for football games. [6]
In 2023, the student body was about 49 percent Black, 36 percent White, and 8 percent Hispanic. Of the student body, 100 percent are categorized as economically disadvantaged. [7]
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