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Greenwood High School
Greenwood High School
Address
	1209 Garrard Avenue; Greenwood, MS 38930-5125; United States
Coordinates	33°30′38″N 90°11′38″W / 33.51056°N 90.19389°W
Information
Type	Comprehensive public high school
Motto	Maximizing Student Potential
School district	Greenwood-Leflore Consolidated School District (2019–); Greenwood Public School District
Principal	Kevin Pulley
Faculty	41.50 (FTE)
Grades	9-12
Gender	coed
Enrollment	637 (2023–23)
Student to teacher ratio	15.35
Color(s)	Maroon and white
Team name	Bulldogs
Website	gh.glcsd.org

Greenwood High School (GHS) is a public high school located in Greenwood, Leflore County, in the U.S. state of Mississippi. The school is part of the Greenwood-Leflore Consolidated School District.

History

The school was reserved for white students only from its founding until 1969, when two African-American students, Marcel Gulledge and Milbertha Teague, walked past a crowd of jeering students and entered the school.^{[citation needed]} It was a part of the Greenwood Public School District until 2019, when that district merged into Greenwood-Leflore CSD.^[4]

Location

Greenwood, Mississippi, is a town of slightly over 15,000 residents located on the banks of the Yazoo River about 130 miles (210 km) south of Memphis, Tennessee, and about 95 miles (153 km) north of Jackson, Mississippi. The city and county are named after Greenwood Leflore, the designated leader of the Choctaw nation who ceded Mississippi land under pressure of the 1830 Indian Removal Act to the United States government in exchange for a land allotment in today's state of Oklahoma.

De Jure segregation years

Greenwood was the original home of the White Citizen's Council, a white supremacist organization established in the summer of 1954 in response to a national trend towards racial integration and civil rights for African-Americans which culminated in the landmark 1955 Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education.^[5]

During this period the town of Greenwood's high school students attended Broad Street High School, the site of today's Threadgill Elementary School — including most notably in its Class of 1955 Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman.^[6]^[7]

Academics

In 2012 Greenwood High School was attended by nearly 770 students.^[8] The school features a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.8 to 1.^[8] The school nickname is the Bulldogs.

According to U.S. News & World Report, for the 2009–10 school year Greenwood High School's student body of 719 students was 98 percent of African-American ethnicity and about 1 percent White American.^[9]

Greenwood High School was one of the first two public high schools in the state of Mississippi to earn accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.^[10]

Demographics

Around 1988 Greenwood High School was almost split evenly between black and white students. In 1998 it was 92% black. Many white students were instead going to the private school Pillow Academy.^[11]

Academic performance

The Mississippi Department of Education gave the school an "F" grade for the 2013–14 school year. In the period circa 2010–2015 the graduation rate was 67.4%.^[12]