Greenwood-Leflore Consolidated School District Explained

Greenwood-Leflore Consolidated School District (GLCSD) is a school district serves Greenwood, Mississippi and the rest of Leflore County. It was established on July 1, 2019,^[1] as a merger of the Greenwood Public School District and the Leflore County School District.

The initial superintendent is Dr. Mary Brown.^[2] Its projected enrollment as of 2018 was to be over 5,000 students.^[3]

History

Upon creation of the consolidated district, no existing schools closed.^[4]

Operations

The former Greenwood School District headquarters is the headquarters of the consolidated district, with the superintendent and assistant superintendents housed there. Other officials are divided between that building and the former Leflore County School District offices.^[5]

There is one band, mass choir, and snow choir common to all of the schools in the consolidated district.^[4]

Schools

7-12 secondary schools

• Leflore County High School (Itta Bena)

High schools (9-12)

• Amanda Elzy High School (Unincorporated area)
• Greenwood High School (Greenwood)

Middle schools/junior high schools (7-8)

• Amanda Elzy Junior High School (Unincorporated area)
• Greenwood Middle School (Greenwood)

Elementary schools (K-6)

• Bankston Elementary School (Greenwood)
• Leflore County Elementary School (Itta Bena)
• Davis Elementary School (Greenwood) - In 1913 the school building was constructed.^[6]

2-6 schools

• Threadgill Elementary School (Greenwood)

3-5 schools

• East Elementary School
  • Prior to the 2019 merger it had grades K-5.^[4]

K-2 schools

• Claudine F. Brown Elementary School (Unincorporated area)
  • It is about 5miles north of Sidon.^[7]
  • Prior to the 2019 merger it had grades K-4.^[4]

PK-1 schools

• Threadgill Primary School (Greenwood). It opened in 1935 as W.C. Williams Elementary School.^[6] Enrollment was 400 in 2015.^[8] In 2015 the closure of the school was proposed.^[9] On May 22, 2015, the Greenwood School District school board voted to close it,^[8] but in 2017 it reopened for grades Pre-Kindergarten-1.^[10] By 2019 the school adopted its current name.^[6]

Other

• GLCSD Career & Technical Educational Center (Greenwood)

Further reading

• Web site: Too many schools in merged district (editorial). Greenwood Commonwealth. 2019-04-12.

External links

• • Greenwood Leflore news - Greenwood Public School District
• 2017 Mississippi Code Title 37 - Education Chapter 7 - School Districts; Boards of Trustees of School Districts Article 3 - Abolition, Alteration and Creation of Districts § 37-7-104.6. Administrative consolidation of Leflore County and Greenwood Municipal Separate School Districts into new countywide school district designated Greenwood-Leflore School District; procedure - Bill on Justia
• District boundary: https://www.mdek12.org/sites/default/files/documents/MBE/MDE-2018(8)/Tab-A-Greenwood-Leflore-boundary.pdf

Notes and References

1. "School District Consolidation in Mississippi ." Mississippi Professional Educators. December 2016. Retrieved on July 2, 2017. Page 2 (PDF p. 3/6).
2. Web site: Sims, Alliyah. Brown Selected for Superintendent for Greenwood-Leflore Consolidated District. Delta news TV.
3. Web site: Sims, Alliyah. Preparations for Greenwood and Leflore County Public School Consolidation. Delta News TV. 2018-04-06. 2019-06-09.
4. Web site: 2 school districts merge into 1 in the Mississippi Delta. Associated Press. 2019-07-06. 2021-02-25.
5. Web site: Edic. Gerard. School district merger is official. Greenwood Commonwealth. 2019-12-29. 2021-02-25. 2021-02-26. https://archive.today/20210226011524/https://www.gwcommonwealth.com/news/article_ea22ceb8-9c52-11e9-ad69-e77d4a59accd.html. bot: unknown.
6. Web site: Eric. Gerard. District begins work on repairs. Greenwood Commonwealth. 2019-06-01. 2022-03-12. [...]Threadgill Primary (then still known as W.C. Williams Elementary)[...].
7. Web site: School Profile. Claudine Brown Elementary School. 2021-05-18. [...]and 5 miles north of Sidon, MS[...]. May 19, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210519033448/https://be.glcsd.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=348224&type=d&pREC_ID=756856. dead.
8. Web site: W.C. Williams Elementary will close. Associated Press. Washington Times. 2015-05-22. 2022-03-12.
9. News: Stole. Bryn. Kalich. Tim. W. C. Williams Elementary may close. The Greenwood Commonwealth. 2015-05-19. 1, 12. - Clipping of first and of second page at Newspapers.com. Alternate URL of an Associated Press release at the Washington Times website.
10. Web site: United States v. Greenwood Pub. Sch. Dist.. Casetext. 2022-03-12.