Amanda Elzy High School | |
---|---|
Location | |
Greenwood, Mississippi postal address United States | |
Coordinates | 33°30′02″N 90°10′06″W / 33.50056°N 90.16833°W |
Information | |
Opened | 1959 |
School district | Greenwood-Leflore Consolidated School District (2019-) Leflore County School District (-2019) |
Faculty | 29.45 (FTE)[1] |
Grades | 9–12 |
Enrollment | 403 (2017–18)[1] |
Student to teacher ratio | 13.68[1] |
Color(s) | |
Team name | Panthers |
Website | aehs |
Amanda Elzy High School (AEHS) is a high school in unincorporated Leflore County, Mississippi, south of Greenwood,[2] and part of the Greenwood-Leflore Consolidated School District.[3]
As of the 2013–2014 school year[update], it had 488 students in grades 9–12 and 36.37 teachers (full-time equivalent).[4]
Its service area includes Minter City, Money, Sidon, and Schlater.[5]
The school was named in 1959 in honor of Amanda Elzy, a pioneering black educator.[6]: 191–192
It was a part of the Leflore County School District until that district's merger into Greenwood-Leflore Consolidated School District on July 1, 2019.[7]
In the 2012–2013 school year, the demographic profile of the student body was 492 black students, 5 Hispanic students and 2 white students.[4]
In 2014, its students were reported as 100% "economically disadvantaged."[8]
By 2010 the school began to only issue detentions for physical altercations, with a choice of either Saturdays or after school, instead of all day in-school suspensions.[9]
The school is mentioned frequently in Richard Rubin's book Confederacy of Silence.[16]