Centreville Academy
| Centreville Academy | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
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| Coordinates | 31°04′37″N 91°03′40″W / 31.0768351°N 91.0611015°W |
| Information | |
| Established | 19 January 1970[1] |
| NCES School ID | 00736221 |
| Faculty | 24.3[2] |
| Enrollment | 357 (2016[2]) |
| Nickname | Tigers |
| Website | www |
Centreville Academy is a private PK-12 school in Centreville, Mississippi. It serves 357 students from Amite County and adjacent Wilkinson County.
History[edit]
At the end of the 1950s, as part of the Massive resistance to the desegregation of the educational system ordered by the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education many white students were enrolled in newly-established segregation academies which included Centreville Academy.[3] As segregation faded in popularity most of these institutions changed their openly discriminatory policies and in 2016, the school had one black student.[2]
Athletics[edit]
The school offers the following sports:
- Football — MAIS class AA champions in 1976, 1979, 1989, 1991, 1998, 1999, 2007, and 2008[4] under Bill Hurst, who has been coach at Centreville for more than forty years.[5]
- Softball
- Cross County
- Basketball
- Baseball
- Tennis
- Golf
- Archery
Alumni[edit]
- Matt Tolbert - baseball player [6]
References[edit]
- ^ "Our Story". Centreville Academy. Archived from the original on 16 January 2018. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
- ^ a b c "Private School Universe Survey". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
- ^ 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. 2038. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
- ^ "Class AA State Football Champions". Mississippi Association of Independent Schools. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
- ^ DeSalvo, Reed (August 19, 2017). "Centreville jumps out early; cruises past WCCA". The Natchez Democrat. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
- ^ "Matt Tolbert". Major League Baseball Advanced Media. Retrieved September 8, 2011. (Note: click "bio" for more information)