Editing Sumter County, Alabama (section)

===Primary and secondary schools===
The school district serving the county is [[Sumter County School District (Alabama)|Sumter County School District]]. In addition, a [[charter school]] is located on the campus of the University of West Alabama, [[University Charter School]].<ref name=About>"[http://www.universitycharterschool.org/about_ucs/ About]." [[University Charter School]]. Retrieved on January 15, 2019.</ref>

Until 2017, all schools in Sumter County were [[de facto segregation|in practice]] entirely [[Racial segregation in the United States|racially segregated]], as white parents sent their children to [[Sumter Academy]], a private [[segregation academy]] set up in 1970 in the wake of a federal court ruling ordering the school district to desegregate. During the 2015–16 school year, 98% of the 1,593 students in county's public schools were black, while none of the 170 students at Sumter Academy were black.<ref name="Poorest247 Stebbins et al" /> However, Sumter Academy closed in June 2017, while in August 2018, University Charter School opened, with a half-black, half-white enrollment, making it the county's first practically desegregated school.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/08/15/sumter-county-ala-just-got-its-first-integrated-school-yes-in-2018|title=Sumter County, Ala., just got its first integrated school. Yes, in 2018.|last=Farzan|first=Antonia Noori|authorlink=Antonia Noori Farzan|date=August 15, 2018|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref>