Bayou Academy is a non-profit school located in unincorporated Bolivar County, Mississippi, near the City of Cleveland on Highway 8. The school serves about 500 students in grades Pre-Kindergarten through 12. The school is accredited by the Midsouth Association of Independent Schools.

History

Bayou Academy was founded in 1964 as a segregation academy.[4] In 1966, the all-white school board sold Skene Attendance Center to a white group called Skene Civic Improvement Society, Inc. for $1.00. The property was then leased to Bolivar Academy, achieving a transfer of public property to the segregationist group.[5] After the United States Supreme Court decided Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education in 1969, ordering the desegregation of public schools in the South, the all-white Bayou Academy doubled its enrollment for the 1970 school year.[6] In 2009, the old Skene school building burned to the ground.[7]

In 2021 the former elementary school principal was arrested for placing a camera in the girls locker room.[8]

Of the 372 students who attended in the 2011–2012 school year, 99 percent were white.[9]

References

  1. ^ a b "Staff Directory | Bayou Academy". www.bayouacademy.net.
  2. ^ a b c "Bayou Academy". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved February 12, 2008. Total enrollment: 254
  3. ^ a b c d "Bayou Academy". Mississippi Association of Independent Schools. Archived from the original on April 15, 2013. Retrieved February 12, 2008.
  4. ^ Thornton, Mary (April 21, 1983). "A Legacy of Legal Segregation Returns to Haunt a Small Town". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved November 4, 2017.
  5. ^ "Board seeks return of school". Clarksdale, Mississippi: Clarksdale Press Register. November 29, 1983. Retrieved July 15, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ Jason Sokol (August 14, 2007). There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945-1975. Random House Digital, Inc. p. 170. ISBN 978-0-307-27550-9. Retrieved September 7, 2012.
  7. ^ Hartfield, Charles. "Abandoned School Set Ablaze: Fraternity Fundraiser Jeopardized". Archived from the original on February 1, 2017.
  8. ^ Warren, Anthony (February 1, 2022). "School principal charged with attempted child exploitation". WLBT. Retrieved February 2, 2022.
  9. ^ "Bayou Academy". Private School Universe Survey. U.S. Department of Education.


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