Leland High School (Leland, Mississippi) Explained

Leland High School
Streetaddress:	404 East Third Street
Zipcode:	38756
Country:	United States
Mascot:	Cub
Principal:	Maurice Johnson
Grades:	9-12
Staff:	24.27 (FTE)
Ratio:	10.84
Students:	263 (2017–18)^[1]

Leland Senior High School (LHS) is a public high school in Leland, Mississippi, United States. It educates approximately 336 students in grades nine through twelve. It is a part of the Leland School District. Leland Elementary and Leland School Park feed students into Leland High School.

The school in 1982 graduated its first racially integrated school population from K–12, having implemented desegregation in 1970.^[2] Leland had a biracial group of parents and school administrators who had encouraged White families to remain in the public school system. By 1992 Leland High School was again majority black. By 1992, many children of White people who had graduated from the integrated Leland school system attended private schools in the Delta. By that time, the black community did not object to the de facto segregation that occurred.^[3] Graduates of Leland High School include former National Football League player Johnie Cooks and jurist Pamela Pepper (1982).^{[4] [5]}

Further reading

• William Bert Thompson, A History of the Greenville, Mississippi, Public Schools under the Administration of E.E. Bass, 1884-1932. MA thesis. University, MS: University of Mississippi, 1968.

External links

• • Official Report Card 2010
• Mississippi Assessment and Accountability Reporting System data
• Great Schools profile of Leland HS

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Notes and References

1. Web site: Leland High School. National Center for Education Statistics. January 10, 2020.
2. News: The death of a dream - A pioneering Southern town has turned its back on school integration - Slowly and silently, Leland, Miss has abandoned its ideals . . G1 . 1992-05-31 . In a state long defined by its racial bigotry, the high school graduates of Leland (Miss.) High School in 1982 were the culmination of the struggle to integrate public education. They were the first white and black children to study together through 12 grades.
3. Blackmon, Douglas A. "The resegregation of a Southern school." Harper's Magazine [serial online]. September 1992;285(1708):14. Available from: Academic Search Premier, Ipswich, MA. Accessed March 26, 2012.
4. Web site: Johnie Cooks Stats . Pro-Football-Reference.com . en . High School: Leland (MS).
5. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/harvest-not-just-a-normal-school-yearbook/ "Not Just a Normal School Yearbook," PBS.org (American Experience), Monday, September 11, 2023.