Sharkey-Issaquena Academy

Sharkey-Issaquena Academy is a private, nonsectarian, school in Rolling Fork, Mississippi (United States). It was founded as a segregation academy in 1970.[2]

Sharkey-Issaquena Academy
Location
Rolling Fork
,
Mississippi

United States
Coordinates32.9048576°N 90.8679148°W / 32.9048576; -90.8679148
Information
TypePrivate
Established1970
GradesPK - 12
Enrollment197[1] (2016)
Athletics conferenceMAIS
MascotConfederates

History
See also: Education segregation in the Mississippi Delta

In 1970, one year after the United States Supreme Court decided Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education, which ordered desegregation of schools, white parents opposed to integration doubled the enrollment of the SIA (from 150 to 300).[3]

In 1982, Issaquena county public schools superintendent Dunbar Lee said he sent his children to Sharkey-Issaquena Academy because public school standards were not "what they were like before integration."[4] Lee added that there were "so many more slow learners in public schools"[4]

In 1989, the school forfeited a football game to Heritage Academy because the other school had a black player.[5][6]

As late as 1995 the student body was 100% white.[2]

In the 2009–2010 school year, there were 201 students enrolled (excluding pre-kindergarten). The demographic profile was 2.0% Asian, 1.0% black, 3.5% Hispanic, and 93.5% white.[7]

In the 2015–2016 school year, Sharley-Issaquena enrolled no Black children.[1]

About the school

Located at 272 Academy Drive in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, the school serves students in grades pre-kindergarten through twelve. The SIA is a member of the Midsouth Association of Independent Schools (MAIS) and its mascot is the Confederate. Neither pregnant students nor known fathers nor fathers-to-be are allowed to attend SIA.[8]

See also

References
  1. "National Center for Education Statistics". NCES. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
  2. Robbie Morganfield (23 July 1995). "New Faces, Old Problem: Whites fleeing public schools for private comforts". Houston Chronicle. p. 1. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
  3. Jason Sokol (14 August 2007). There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945-1975. Random House Digital, Inc. p. 171. ISBN 978-0-307-27550-9. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
  4. Weaver, Nancy (November 29, 1982). "Race Remains a Factor in School Choice". Clarion Ledger. p. 12.
  5. "A Goal-line Stand For Prejudice". tribunedigital-chicagotribune. Retrieved 2017-11-07.
  6. Dodd, Donald (October 12, 1989). "Heritage Academy adds black player, loses foes". Clarion-Ledger. p. 1.
  7. "Sharkey-Issaquena Academy". Private School Universe Survey. U.S. Department of Education.
  8. "Sharkey-Issaquena Academy Handbook and Honor Code". Sharkey-Issaquena Academy. 2011. p. 8. Retrieved 10 July 2012.


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