Centreville Academy Explained

Centreville Academy
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Centreville Academy is a private PK-12 school in Centreville, Mississippi. It serves 357 students from Amite County and adjacent Wilkinson County.

History

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.

Athletics

The school offers the following sports:

Alumni

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Our Story. Centreville Academy. 16 January 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180116193532/http://www.catigers.com/admissions/our-ca-story. 16 January 2018. dead.
  2. Web site: Private School Universe Survey. National Center for Education Statistics. 14 January 2018.
  3. Book: Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity. United States. Congress. Senate.. Equal Educational Opportunity: Hearings Before the Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity, Ninety-first Congress, Second Session-92nd Congress, First Session, Volume 10. 1970. U.S. Government Printing Office. 2038. 14 January 2018.
  4. Web site: Class AA State Football Champions. Mississippi Association of Independent Schools. 16 January 2018.
  5. News: DeSalvo. Reed. Centreville jumps out early; cruises past WCCA. 16 January 2018. The Natchez Democrat. August 19, 2017.
  6. Web site: Matt Tolbert. Major League Baseball Advanced Media. September 8, 2011. (Note: click "bio" for more information)