Centreville Academy is a private PK-12 school in Centreville, Mississippi. It serves 357 students from Amite County and adjacent Wilkinson County.

History

At the end of the 1950s, as part of the Massive resistance to the desegregation of the educational system ordered by the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education many white students were enrolled in newly-established segregation academies which included Centreville Academy. As segregation faded in popularity most of these institutions changed their openly discriminatory policies and in 2016, the school had one black student.

Centreville Academy

Athletics

The school offers the following sports: Football — MAIS class AA champions in 1976, 1979, 1989, 1991, 1998, 1999, 2007, and 2008 under Bill Hurst, who has been coach at Centreville for more than forty years. Softball Cross County Basketball Baseball Tennis Golf Archery

Centreville Academy

Alumni

Matt Tolbert - baseball player

References

Private middle schools in Mississippi

Private high schools in Mississippi

Private elementary schools in Mississippi

Schools in Amite County, Mississippi

Segregation academies in Mississippi

Educational institutions established in 1970

Centreville Academy