Jamestown Academy (Virginia)

Jamestown Academy was a private school in James City County, Virginia, established in 1964 when the local public schools were ordered to desegregate following the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling.[1]

Jamestown Academy
Location
Coordinates37.306149°N 76.73587299°W / 37.306149; -76.73587299
Information
TypePrivate
Opened1964
Closed1989
GradesK-8
Campus size8 acres (3.2 ha)
Campus typeSuburban

Tuition at Jamestown was covered in part by state tuition grants. Grants to a "nonprofit, nonsectarian private school", even segregation academies, were upheld by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.[2] On March 9, 1965, in Griffin v. State Board of Education, state tuition grants to white-only schools were found to be unconstitutional.[3]

The school closed in 1989.[4]

References

  1. Public Education : 1964 Staff Report (PDF). United States Commission on Civil Rights. 1964. p. 277. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  2. "Text of Supreme court's Decision ordering Virginia County to Reopen Its Schools". New York Times. May 26, 1964. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
  3. "Griffin v State Board of Education". E.D.Va. March 9, 1965. Retrieved 29 August 2017. 239 F. Supp. 560 (1965)
  4. Lerman, David (June 29, 1989). "Jamestown Academy Calls It Quits For '89". Daily Press. Retrieved 5 November 2017.


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