Fuqua School
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605 Fuqua Drive Farmville, VA 23901 United States |
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| Coordinates | 37°17′37.9″N 78°23′9.3″W / 37.293861°N 78.385917°WCoordinates: 37°17′37.9″N 78°23′9.3″W / 37.293861°N 78.385917°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Private |
| Motto | Scientiā volamus ("Through knowledge, we fly") |
| Established | 1959 |
| Head of school | John Melton |
| Grades | Pre-K to 12th |
| Enrollment | 383 (2013–2014 school year) |
| Color(s) | Red and Gold/Black and Yellow |
| Mascot | Falcons |
| Yearbook | The Peregrine |
| Endowment | $6.0 million+ |
| Information | 434-392-4131 |
| Website | http://www.fuquaschool.com |
Fuqua School is a private primary and secondary school located in Farmville, Virginia. It was founded as Prince Edward Academy in 1959 as a segregation academy and renamed after J.B. Fuqua, who made a large contribution to the school in 1993.
After the United States Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that public education must be racially integrated, the Prince Edward County school board closed all of its schools. Fuqua School was initially founded in 1959 as Prince Edward Academy in response to pending integration, part of a strategy known as massive resistance. Over the next few years essentially all of the white children in the district were attending the Academy.
The public school system in Prince Edward County remained closed between 1959 and 1964. The United States Supreme Court decision Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County with a vote of 9–0 outlawed the allocation of public funds through tuition grants to fund race-discriminating institutions. When public schools were reopened in 1964 and integrated, Prince Edward Academy stood as an option for families who did not want to participate in integration, thus continuing racial tension among citizens. Because Prince Edward Academy did not accept non-white students, it lost its tax-exempt status in 1978 and began to suffer financially. It was not until the late 1980s that it ended its policy of discrimination and admitted students of other races. Its association with "old money" and discrimination in the past still causes some tension in the Farmville community, especially among non-whites and students of the local public schools.
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