Macon East Academy | |
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Location | |
Coordinates | 32°18′09″N 86°00′53″W / 32.3024391°N 86.0145863°W |
Information | |
Former name | Macon Academy (1963-1995) |
Type | Private |
Established | September 1963 |
NCES School ID | 00002835 |
Faculty | 26.3[1] |
Enrollment | 287 (2016[1]) |
Campus type | Rural |
Team name | Knights |
Website | maconeast |
Macon East Academy is a private PK-12 school in Cecil, Alabama. It was established as a segregation academy in response to the racial desegregation of public schools[2] and serves 287 students.
Macon Academy was founded in September 1963 in Tuskegee, Alabama (32.3743789,-85.6599105), seat of Macon County.[3] The school was a segregation academy.[4] Under the direction of Governor George Wallace, the state provided scholarship money to support the school.[3]
In 1995, in the midst of falling enrollments, the trustees moved the school to Cecil, Alabama, a suburb of Montgomery.
The campus, twenty miles east of Montgomery in a rural area, includes five buildings and outdoor athletic facilities.