Editing Noxubee County, Mississippi (section)

==Education==
Public elementary and secondary education is administered by the [[Noxubee County School District]], which includes the entire county.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st28_ms/schooldistrict_maps/c28103_noxubee/DC20SD_C28103.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220825105212/https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st28_ms/schooldistrict_maps/c28103_noxubee/DC20SD_C28103.pdf |archive-date=2022-08-25 |url-status=live|title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Noxubee County, MS|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|accessdate=2022-08-24}} - [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st28_ms/schooldistrict_maps/c28103_noxubee/DC20SD_C28103_SD2MS.txt Text list]</ref>

Noxubee County is within the service area of the [[East Mississippi Community College]] system.<ref name="Coursecat0709p3">"[http://www.eastms.edu/academics/documents/EMCCCATALOGfor2007-2009.pdf CATALOG 2007-09] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101218112338/http://www.eastms.edu/academics/documents/EMCCCATALOGfor2007-2009.pdf |date=2010-12-18 }}, [[East Mississippi Community College|eastms.edu]]. 3 (3/147); retrieved March 1, 2011.</ref> The system offers classes in the Macon Extension at [[Noxubee County High School]] in [[Macon, Mississippi|Macon]].<ref name="Coursecat0709p10">[http://www.eastms.edu/academics/documents/EMCCCATALOGfor2007-2009.pdf CATALOG 2007-09, eastms.edu, 10 (10/147)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101218112338/http://www.eastms.edu/academics/documents/EMCCCATALOGfor2007-2009.pdf |date=2010-12-18 }}; retrieved on March 1, 2011.</ref>

At one time, many more schools existed within the county. In the early 20th century, 19 of these were consolidated into two districts consisting of six schools, which were Salem, Lynn Creek, Center Point, Cliftonville, Cooksville-Paulette, Mashulaville, and Brooksville. The old Salem School was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.<ref>{{cite web|title=STORES OF THE SOUTH - OLD SALEM SCHOOL|url=http://hickoryridgestudio49.blogspot.com/2015/09/stores-of-south-old-salem-school.html|access-date=19 November 2017}}</ref> The Noxubee County Agricultural School at Mashulaville opened in 1910 and included a 40-acre farm and provided living arrangements for up to 40 boarding students.<ref>{{cite news|title=The Mashulaville School|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83016943/1911-08-11/ed-1/seq-4/|access-date=18 December 2017|publisher=Macon Beacon|date=11 August 1911}}</ref>

The public school population is 1% White, compared to 27% of the county population.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.mde.k12.ms.us/Account/2008Report/DEMO0607.xls | title = 2006-07 State, District, and School Enrollment by Race/Gender with Poverty Data | format = [[Microsoft Excel|XLS]] | publisher = Mississippi Department of Education | date = 2008-01-16 | access-date = 2008-05-18}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> [[Central Academy (Mississippi)|Central Academy]] in Macon, which was founded in 1968 as a [[segregation academy]],<ref name="Deal">{{cite book|last1=Bolton|first1=Charles C.|title=[[The Hardest Deal of All]]|date=2005|publisher=[[University Press of Mississippi]]|location=Jackson|isbn=9781578067176}}</ref> closed in 2017. In 1982, private deals that had been made between board members to use public funds to aid Central Academy became public. As a result, the [[NAACP]] called for the resignation of all [[Noxubee County School District|Noxubee county school board]] members who had knowledge of the board's aid to Central Academy, which at the time did not enroll any black students.<ref>{{cite news|title=Schools board member resigns before NAACP asks|page=11|work=Clarksdale Press-Register|date=May 19, 1982}}</ref>