Bayou Academy
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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.[1] 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.[2] 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.[3] In 2009, the old Skene school building burned to the ground.[4]
In 2021 the former elementary school principal was arrested for placing a camera in the girls locker room.[5]
Of the 372 students who attended in the 2011–2012 school year, 99 percent were white.[6]
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