Leland High School (Leland, Mississippi)

Leland Senior High School (LHS) is a public high school in Leland, Mississippi, United States. It educates approximately 336 students in grades nine through twelve. It is a part of the Leland School District. Leland Elementary and Leland School Park feed students into Leland High School.

Leland High School
Address
404 East Third Street

Leland
,
Mississippi
38756

United States
Information
PrincipalMr. Maurice Johnson
Staff24.27 (FTE)[1]
Grades9-12
Number of students263 (2017–18)[1]
Student to teacher ratio10.84[1]
Color(s)     
MascotCub
Websitelelandhigh.ms.lsdh.schoolinsites.com

The school in 1982 graduated its first racially integrated school population from K–12, having implemented desegregation in 1970.[2] Leland had a biracial group of parents and school administrators who had encouraged White families to remain in the public school system. By 1992 Leland High School was again majority black. By 1992, many children of White people who had graduated from the integrated Leland school system attended private schools in the Delta. By that time, the black community did not object to the de facto segregation that occurred.[3]

A snapshot of a newspaper clipping about the old Leland High School building before it caught fire in the 1920s.

Graduates of Leland High School include former National Football League player Johnie Cooks and jurist Pamela Pepper (1982).[4][5]

References
  1. "Leland High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved January 10, 2020.
  2. "The death of a dream - A pioneering Southern town has turned its back on school integration - Slowly and silently, Leland, Miss has abandoned its ideals". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. 1992-05-31. p. G1. In a state long defined by its racial bigotry, the high school graduates of Leland (Miss.) High School in 1982 were the culmination of the struggle to integrate public education. They were the first white and black children to study together through 12 grades
  3. Blackmon, Douglas A. "The resegregation of a Southern school." Harper's Magazine [serial online]. September 1992;285(1708):14. Available from: Academic Search Premier, Ipswich, MA. Accessed March 26, 2012.
  4. "Johnie Cooks Stats". Pro-Football-Reference.com. High School: Leland (MS)
  5. "Not Just a Normal School Yearbook," PBS.org (American Experience), Monday, September 11, 2023. Retrieved September 13, 2023.

Further reading
  • William Bert Thompson, A History of the Greenville, Mississippi, Public Schools under the Administration of E.E. Bass, 1884-1932. MA thesis. University, MS: University of Mississippi, 1968.

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