Centreville Academy is a private PK-12 school in

Centreville, Mississippi Centreville is a town in Amite and Wilkinson counties, Mississippi, United States. It is part of the McComb, Mississippi micropolitan statistical area. Its population was 1,258 in 2020. Bethany Presbyterian Church is a historic church in Cent ...

. It serves 357 students from

Amite County Amite County is a county located in the state of Mississippi on its southern border with Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 12,720. Its county seat is Liberty. The county is named after the Amite River, which runs through th ...

and adjacent Wilkinson County.

History

At the end of the 1950s, as part of the Massive resistance to the desegregation of the educational system ordered by the Supreme Court in

Brown v. Board of Education ''Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka'', 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the ...

many white students were enrolled in newly-established

segregation academies Segregation academies are private schools in the Southern United States that were founded in the mid-20th century by white parents to avoid having their children attend desegregated public schools. They were founded between 1954, when the U.S ...

which included Centreville Academy. As segregation faded in popularity most of these institutions changed their openly discriminatory policies and in 2016, the school had one black student.

Athletics

The school offers the following sports: * Football — MAIS class AA champions in 1976, 1979, 1989, 1991, 1998, 1999, 2007, and 2008. Class AAA 2010, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2023. under Bill Hurst, who has been coach at Centreville for more than forty years. *Softball *Track *Basketball *Baseball *Tennis *Archery

Alumni

* Matt Tolbert - baseball player (Note: click "bio" for more information)

References

Private K–12 schools in Mississippi Schools in Amite County, Mississippi Segregation academies in Mississippi Educational institutions established in 1970 1970 establishments in Mississippi

Academy An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the go ...

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