Amanda Elzy High School
| Amanda Elzy High School | |
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| Location | |
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Greenwood, Mississippi United States |
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| Coordinates | 33°30′02″N 90°10′06″W / 33.50056°N 90.16833°WCoordinates: 33°30′02″N 90°10′06″W / 33.50056°N 90.16833°W |
| 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 the 2013–2014 school year[update], it had 488 students in grades 9–12 and 36.37 teachers (full-time equivalent).
In the 2012-2013 school year, the demographic profile of the student body was 492 black students, 5 Hispanic students and 2 white students.
In 2014, its students were reported as 100% "economically disadvantaged."
The school was named in 1959 in honour of Amanda Elzy, a pioneering black educationist. She graduated from Rust High School in 1929 and from Rust College in 1934. 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. Amanda Elzy died in 2004.
The school is mentioned frequently in Richard Rubin's novel Confederacy of Silence.
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