| Sumter County High School | |||||||||||
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| Address: | 902 4th Avenue | ||||||||||
| City: | York | ||||||||||
| State: | Alabama | ||||||||||
| Zipcode: | 36925 | ||||||||||
| Country: | United States | ||||||||||
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| Type: | Public high school | ||||||||||
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| Grades: | 9–12 | ||||||||||
| Colors: | Red and white | ||||||||||
| Mascot: | Wildcats[1] | ||||||||||
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Sumter County High School was a senior high school in York, Alabama. It was a part of the Sumter County School District.
In 1968 the student body was 99.1% white and 90.1% of the teachers were white. Due to white flight, no white students remained by 1970, and about 33% of the teachers were white.[3] Many white students had been placed in Sumter Academy.[4]
The football team had a rivalry with that of Livingston High School. The impetus to merge came because of a declining population - the county had a total of 838 students divided between the two high schools in 2009 - as well as the condition of Sumter County High and budget issues.[5] It merged with Livingston High and became Sumter Central High School in 2011.[6]