Amanda Elzy High School
| Amanda Elzy High School | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
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Greenwood, Mississippi United States | |
| Information | |
| Opened | 1959 |
| School district | Leflore County School District |
| Faculty | 36.5 |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 505 |
Amanda Elzy High School is a high school in Greenwood, Mississippi, United States, and part of Leflore County School District. As of 2013-2013, it had 505 students in grades 9-12 and 36.5 staff.[1]
Demographics
In the 2012-2013 school year, the demographic profile of the student body was 492 black students, 5 Hispanic students and 2 white students.[1]
In 2014, its students were reported as 100% "economically disadvantaged".[2]
Amanda Elzy
The school was named in 1959 in honour of Amanda Elzy, a pioneering black educationist.[3]:191-192 She graduated from Rust High School in 1929 and from Rust College in 1934.[3]:23 She worked as Supervisor of Negro Schools in LeFlore County, then became the first black assistant superintendent in the county, and was one of the founders of Mississippi Valley State University in the 1940s. Her sister was the singer Ruby Elzy, and their mother Emma Elzy was a teacher and prominent member of the Methodist church, in whose memory the Mississippi Conference of the United Methodist Church presents an annual Emma K. Elzy award. Emma died in 1985, aged 98.[4] Amanda Elzy died in 2004.[5]
Notable former students
- Tyree Irving (born 1946), presiding judge of the Mississippi Court of Appeals[6]
- Lusia Harris (born 1955), basketball player[7] and member of the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame[8]
- Gerald Glass (born 1967), professional basketball player. Glass attended Amanda Elzy High School as a student, and then returned as an adult to coach the basketball team to a state championship in the 2011-2012 season.[9][10]
- Alphonso Ford (1971-2004), basketball player[11]
In popular culture
The school is mentioned frequently in Richard Rubin's novel Confederacy of Silence.[12]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Amanda Elzy High School". School Directory Information. U.S. Department of Education.
- ↑ "Amanda Elzy High School: Student Body". US News & World Report. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Weaver, David E (2004). Black Diva of the Thirties: the life of Ruby Elzy. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781604737653. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
- ↑ "Awards: Emma K. Elzy Award". Mississippi Conference of the United Methodist Church. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
- ↑ "Elzy, Amanda Belle". Who's Who among African Americans. Gale Research. 2008. p. 1352. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
- ↑ "Presiding Judge Tyree Irving". Court of Appeals. State of Mississippi Judiciary. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
- ↑ "Oral history with Ms. Lusia Harris-Stewart". University of Southern Mississippi. December 18, 1999. Archived from the original on August 29, 2010. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
- ↑ "Lusia Harris Stewart". Women's Basketball Hall of Fame. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
- ↑ "Gerald Glass". basketball-reference.com. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
- ↑ Flynn, Bryan (August 1, 2013). "2013 Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame Class". Jackson Free Press.
- ↑ "Alphonso Ford". databaseBasketball.com. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
- ↑ Rubin, Richard (2010). Confederacy of Silence: A True Tale of the New Old South. Simon and Schuster. pp. 53, 113, 201.
External links
- Leflore County School District Website under construction at Feb 2015
- "Amanda Elzy High School". AdoptAClassroom.org. Retrieved 10 February 2015.