Editing Sunflower County, Mississippi (section)

====Private schools====
[[File:Central Delta Academy, Inverness, MS.jpg|thumb|[[Central Delta Academy]]]]
* '''Private School'''
** [[Indianola Academy]] (Indianola)
** [[North Sunflower Academy]] (''[[Unincorporated area]]'')<ref>"[http://www.northsunfloweracademy.com/ Home]." [[North Sunflower Academy]]. Retrieved on August 10, 2010.</ref><!--Address says Drew, MS, but it is outside city limits-->
**[[Restoration Ministries Christian Academy]]

The [[Central Delta Academy]] in [[Inverness, Mississippi|Inverness]] closed on May 21, 2010.<ref>"[http://www.centraldeltaacademy.org/page/page/4826505.htm Home] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090905152355/http://www.centraldeltaacademy.org/page/page/4826505.htm |date=2009-09-05 }}." Central Delta Academy. Retrieved August 17, 2010.</ref>

Three of the private schools (Indianola Academy, North Sunflower, and Central Delta) originated as [[segregation academy|segregation academies]].<ref>Moye, J. Todd. ''Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986''. [[UNC Press Books]], 2004. [https://books.google.com/books?id=KZ4IoG1nQuUC&dq=%22Though+plans+for+Indianola+Academy+had+long%22&pg=PA179 179]. Retrieved from [[Google Books]] on March 2, 2011. {{ISBN|0-8078-5561-8}}, {{ISBN|978-0-8078-5561-4}}</ref><ref>Moye, J. Todd. ''Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986''. [[UNC Press Books]], 2004. [https://books.google.com/books?id=KZ4IoG1nQuUC&dq=%22Central+Delta+Academy%22&pg=PA243 243]. Retrieved from [[Google Books]] on March 2, 2011. "Sunflower County's two other segregation academies— North Sunflower Academy, between Drew and Ruleville, and Central Delta Academy in Inverness— both sprouted in a similar fashion." {{ISBN|0-8078-5561-8}}, {{ISBN|978-0-8078-5561-4}}</ref>

[[Pillow Academy]] in unincorporated [[Leflore County, Mississippi|Leflore County]], near [[Greenwood, Mississippi|Greenwood]], enrolls some students from Sunflower County.<ref name="Profile20102011">"[http://www.pillowacademy.com/profile.htm Profile of Pillow Academy 2010-2011] {{webarchive|url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20011201014229/http://www.pillowacademy.com/profile.htm |date=2001-12-01 }}." Pillow Academy. Retrieved on March 25, 2012.</ref> It originally was a segregation academy.<ref>{{cite magazine | url = http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/index.php/site/comments/cearas_season_111809/ | magazine = [[Jackson Free Press]] | title = Ceara's Season | author = Lynch, Adam | date = November 18, 2009 | access-date = August 19, 2011}}</ref>