| Rosa Fort High School | |
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| Location: | 1100 Rosa Fort Dr, Tunica, MS 38676 |
| Country: | United States |
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| Principal: | Valarie Davis |
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| Staff: | 37.47 (FTE) |
| Ratio: | 11.93 |
| Grades: | 912 |
| Gender: | Coeducational |
| Lower Age: | and |
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| Enrollment: | 447[1] |
| Enrollment As Of: | 20222023 |
| Colors: | Forest green and Vegas gold [2] |
| Mascot: | Lions |
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Rosa Fort High School (RFHS) is a senior high school in unincorporated Tunica County, Mississippi,[3] adjacent to the North Tunica CDP,[4] and near Tunica (with a Tunica postal address).
It is a part of the Tunica County School District, which includes all of Tunica County.[5]
After the rise of the gambling industry in the county in the 1990s, an influx of tax revenue went into the school system.[6] In 1990, according to a Fortune article about Tunica, one in three students at Tunica's high school graduated from high school. In 1991 no agency tracked graduation rates. According to the Fortune article, while "[m]ore kids are graduating from high school - there's no way to know for sure" whether a significant improvement had been made in the year 2007.[7] Despite the influx of tax revenue, the article argues, Rosa Fort High in 2007 was "a stubborn underperformer."[6] That year, it was ranked a "two" or "underperforming" in the State of Mississippi's five point scale. The article concluded that "Rosa Fort students aren't a whole lot better off academically than before the casinos arrived."[7] Ronald Love, who had been hired by the state in 1997 to supervise the Tunica school system, said "It is like Tunica suffers from a hangover from 100 years of poverty. There are vestiges of it everywhere: in education, in local politics, in the housing. And when you have been the poorest of the poor, well, an infusion of resources might lighten your load, but you still have the hangover."[7]
98% of the students were black. This differed from the private Tunica Academy (formerly Tunica Institute for Learning) a segregation academy founded in the desegregation period, where 97% were white.[8]