Lanier Junior Senior High School Explained

Lanier Junior Senior High School
Motto:"Enhancing Today's Minds to Lead Tomorrow's Future."
Established:1925[1]
Schooltype:Secondary
Streetaddress:833 West Maple Street
City:Jackson
State:Mississippi
Country:United States
Principal:MRS. STACEY WEBB BAILEY
Superintendent:Cedric Gray[2]
Mascot:Bulldog
Enrollment:603 (2022–23)[3]
Staff:46.90 (FTE)
Ratio:12.86
Feeders:Rowan Middle School
District:Jackson Public School District
Colors:Maroon and white [4]
Website:Official website

Lanier Junior Senior High School, formerly W. H. Lanier High School, is a public middle and high school located in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. It is part of the Jackson Public School District. The current principal is Valerie Bradley.[5] There were a total of 872 students enrolled in Lanier High, then only a high school, during the 2006–2007 school year. The gender makeup of the district was 52% female and 48% male. The racial makeup of the school is 100% African American.[6]

History

Lanier was founded in 1925 as a junior and senior high school. It was named after William Henry Lanier (1855–1929), who was superintendent of black schools in Jackson from 1912 until his death.[1] Due to segregation, Lanier was reserved for black students until 1969,[7] when Jackson schools were integrated by law.[8]

In 2023, Brinkley Middle consolidated into Lanier High.[9]

Feeder pattern

The following schools fed into Lanier High School as of 2007.[10]

Notable alumni

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: School History . . Lanier High School . Jackson (MS) Public Schools . 20 Oct 2017 . Lanier was first organized as a junior-senior high school in 1925 providing instruction for pupils from the seventh through the twelfth grades..
  2. Web site: Superintendent. 2008-12-17.
  3. Web site: Lanier High School. National Center for Education Statistics. August 2, 2024.
  4. Web site: MHSAA School Directory. 2024-03-09. Mississippi High School Activities Association. en-US.
  5. Web site: Administration / Principal . http . 2 November 2019 . en.
  6. Web site: Mississippi Assessment and Accountability Reporting System . Office of Research and Statistics, Mississippi Department of Education . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070323012858/http://orsap.mde.k12.ms.us:8080/MAARS/indexProcessor.jsp . March 23, 2007 .
  7. Web site: Dreher, Arielle. How Integration Failed in Jackson’s Public Schools from 1969 to 2017. Jackson Free Press. 2017-11-15.
  8. Web site: Taylor, Ayana. JPS, Then and Now. Jackson Free Press. 2004-05-12. 2019-11-18.
  9. Web site: Jackson. Torsheta. Two Jackson Public Schools Merge, Creating the District’s First 7-12 Institution in Years. Mississippi Free Press. 2023-07-25. 2024-08-27.
  10. http://www.jackson.k12.ms.us/schools/feeder_patterns.htm Feeder Patterns
  11. http://themississippilink.com/wp- content/uploads/2012/01/July-10-2014.pdf Jackson's 'Legends of Basketball' reunion brings together Brinkley, Jim Hill and Lanier high school players who 'ruled the court'
  12. Rayson, Ann. "Richard Wright's Life." Modern American Poetry. Nelson, Cary and Brinkman, Bartholomew, eds. Department of English, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: 2001.

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