Tupelo High School

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Tupelo High School
Location
Tupelo High School
4125 Golden Wave Drive
Tupelo, Mississippi 38801

United States
Coordinates US_type:edu 34°13′55″N88°45′50″W / 34.232°N 88.764°W / 34.232; -88.764
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Type Public
Established1914
School district Tupelo Public School District
PrincipalMelissa Thomas
Faculty131.15 (on FTE basis) [1]
Grades9 to 12
Gender Co-ed
Enrollment2,001 [1]  (2022–23)
Student to teacher ratio15.26 [1]
Color(s) Blue and Gold   
MascotGolden Wave
Accreditation Southern Association of Colleges and Schools [2]
NewspaperThe Hi-Times [3]
YearbookThe Album
Website www.tupeloschools.com/tupelo-high-school

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.

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The current student population of the school is around 2,000 students. 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]

History

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]

Demographics

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]

Student life

As of 2022- 2023, Tupelo High School offers extracurricular activities, including football, slowpitch and fastpitch softball, cross country, volleyball, swimming, basketball, soccer, bowling, archery, baseball, wrestling, golf, tennis, cheer, and track and field. In addition to athletics, the school offers other clubs, such as theatre, a school newspaper, arts, and mock trials.

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  5. ↑ "2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Lee County, MS" (PDF). U.S. Census Bureau . Retrieved July 31, 2022. - Text list
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