Rosa Fort High School

Rosa Fort High School (RFHS) is a senior high school in unincorporated Tunica County, Mississippi,[1] adjacent to the North Tunica CDP,[2] and near Tunica. It is a part of the Tunica County School District.

History

After the rise of the gambling industry in the county in the 1990s, an influx of tax revenue went into the school system.[3] In 1990, according to a Fortune article about Tunica, one in three students at Tunica's high school graduated from high school. In 1991 no agency tracked graduation rates. Mehta said that therefore that while "[m]ore kids are graduating from high school - there's no way to know for sure" whether a significant improvement had been made in the year 2007.[4] Mehta that despite the influx of tax revenue, Rosa Fort High in 2007 was "a stubborn underperformer."[3] That year, it was ranked a "two" or "underperforming" in the State of Mississippi's five point scale. Mehta concluded that "Rosa Fort students aren't a whole lot better off academically than before the casinos arrived."[4] Ronald Love, who had been hired by the state in 1997 to supervise the Tunica school system, said "It is like Tunica suffers from a hangover from 100 years of poverty. There are vestiges of it everywhere: in education, in local politics, in the housing. And when you have been the poorest of the poor, well, an infusion of resources might lighten your load, but you still have the hangover."[4]

As of 2010 98% of the students were black. This differed from the private Tunica Academy (formerly Tunica Institute for Learning), where 97% were white.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Home. Rosa Fort High School. Retrieved on July 8, 2017. " Rosa Fort High School 1100 Rosa Fort Dr, Tunica, MS 38676 "
  2. ↑ "2010 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: North Tunica CDP, MS." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on July 8, 2017.
  3. 1 2 Mehta, Stephanie N. "Legalized gambling saves a depressed town." Fortune at CNN/Money. March 15, 2007. p. 1. (Archive) Retrieved on June 3, 2013.
  4. 1 2 3 Mehta, Stephanie N. "Legalized gambling saves a depressed town." Fortune at CNN/Money. March 15, 2007. p. 2. (Archive) Retrieved on June 3, 2013.
  5. ↑ Dellinger, Matt. Interstate 69: The Unfinished History of the Last Great American Highway. Simon and Schuster, August 24, 2010. ISBN 143917573X, 9781439175736. p. 147.

Coordinates: 34°42′12″N 90°22′25″W / 34.7034°N 90.3736°W / 34.7034; -90.3736


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