Editing Starkville, Mississippi (section)

===Private schools===
Private schools in Starkville include:
* [[Starkville Academy]], founded 1969
* Starkville Christian School, founded 1996

Starkville Academy has been described as a [[segregation academy]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Segregated Education |publisher= [[Mississippi State University]] library project on Starkville civil rights| url =http://starkvillecivilrights.msstate.edu/wordpress/backlash/| access-date=November 10, 2017}}</ref> Despite fears that the consolidation of the Starkville and Oktibbeha County school districts in 2015 would lead to additional [[White flight]] to private schools, district consolidation actually resulted in decreased enrollment at area private schools as more white parents living in Oktibbeha County opted to enroll their children in the consolidated district.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mississippitoday.org/2016/07/19/starkville-school-merger-what-went-right/|title=Starkville school merger: What went right? {{!}} Mississippi Today|website=mississippitoday.org|date=July 19, 2016|language=en-US|access-date=June 12, 2018}}</ref>