Editing Creola, Alabama (section)

==Education==
[[Mobile County Public School System]] operates public schools.<ref>"[https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/GUBlock/st01_al/place/p0118304_creola/DC10BLK_P0118304_000.pdf 2010 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP (INDEX): Creola city, AL]." [[U.S. Census Bureau]]. Retrieved on November 27, 2018. Pages [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/GUBlock/st01_al/place/p0118304_creola/DC10BLK_P0118304_001.pdf 1] and [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/GUBlock/st01_al/place/p0118304_creola/DC10BLK_P0118304_002.pdf 2].</ref> Students are zoned to North Mobile County K-8 School, previously North Mobile County Middle School,<ref>"[http://images.pcmac.org/Uploads/MCPSS/MobileCounty/Departments/DocumentsCategories/Documents/North%20Mobile%20Middle.pdf North Mobile Middle Attendance Zone]{{Dead link|date=December 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}." [[Mobile County Public School System]]. Retrieved on November 27, 2018.</ref><ref>"[http://northmobile.mcm.schoolinsites.com/?PageName=LatestNews&Section=LatestNews&ItemID=40701&ISrc=School&Itype=News Welcome to North Mobile County Middle School] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716014233/http://northmobile.mcm.schoolinsites.com/?PageName=LatestNews&Section=LatestNews&ItemID=40701&ISrc=School&Itype=News |date=July 16, 2011 }}." North Mobile County Middle School. Retrieved on October 22, 2010. "The North Mobile County Middle School serves students living outside the Saraland City Limits and includes students from Satsuma, Creola, Axis, and Prichard. We will be located at the current Lee Intermediate Building and will be located here until a new facility is completed on Salco Road."</ref> near [[Axis, Alabama|Axis CDP]]. Creola students go to [[Citronelle High School]] in [[Citronelle, Alabama|Citronelle]].<ref>"[http://images.pcmac.org/Uploads/MCPSS/MobileCounty/Departments/DocumentsCategories/Documents/Citronelle%20High%20School.pdf Citronelle High School Attendance Zone] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210725055213/http://images.pcmac.org/Uploads/MCPSS/MobileCounty/Departments/DocumentsCategories/Documents/Citronelle%20High%20School.pdf |date=July 25, 2021 }}." [[Mobile County Public School System]]. Retrieved on November 27, 2018.</ref><ref name=Ericsonhightech>Ericson, Sally Pearsall. "[http://blog.al.com/live/2013/09/north_mobile_county_k-8_offers.html North Mobile County K-8 offers high-tech learning (photos)]." [[AL.com]]. September 11, 2013. Retrieved on July 29, 2016. "North Mobile County K-8, set in the heart of a beautiful pine forest, was built for students in Axis and Creola,[...]The Mobile County school system built North Mobile school,[...]to accommodate students displaced by Saraland's split from the school system."</ref>

===History of schools===
On September 7, 2010, North Mobile County Middle School opened, replacing the role of Adams Middle School in [[Saraland, Alabama|Saraland]], because residents outside of Saraland are no longer zoned to Adams Middle.<ref>Phillips, Rena Havner. "[http://blog.al.com/live/2010/09/video_north_mobile_county_midd.html Video: North Mobile County Middle School opens its doors in Axis]". ''[[Mobile Press-Register]]''. September 7, 2010. Retrieved on October 22, 2010. "North Mobile County Middle School students 6th grader Derrick Boykin, 12, and 7th grader Amanda Daniels, 12, walk down a sidewalk on the first day of classes at the school Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. The newly completed $14 million school was built to accommodate students displaced by Saraland's split from the Mobile County system."</ref> This rezoning affected residents in Creola, who were newly assigned to North Mobile County.<ref name=Ericsonhightech/>

Prior to the 2012 split of the [[Satsuma, Alabama|City of Satsuma]] from the Mobile County system, Creola was zoned to Satsuma schools,<ref name=EricsonCreolaaponders>Ericson, Sally Pearsall. "[http://blog.al.com/live/2013/08/creola_ponders_its_future_this.html Creola ponders its future: 'This whole thing is about schools']." [[AL.com]]. August 25, 2013. Retrieved on July 29, 2016.</ref> including [[Satsuma High School]]. In 2011 Renee Busbee of the ''[[Mobile Press-Register]]'' said that residents of Creola may be rezoned to [[Blount High School|Blount]], [[Citronelle High School|Citronelle]], and/or [[Vigor High School|Vigor]] high schools.<ref>Busbee, Renee. "[http://blog.al.com/live/2011/05/parents_upset_that_children_ma.html Parents upset that children may not be able to attend Satsuma High School]." ''[[Mobile Press-Register]]''. Saturday May 21, 2011. Retrieved on November 17, 2012.</ref>

Ultimately Creola, without an elementary school after the departure of Satsuma schools, was rezoned to North Mobile County, converted into a K-8, and Citronelle High. Any Creola residents wishing to send their children to Satsuma schools would be required to pay tuition.<ref name=EricsonCreolaaponders/> {{As of|2013}} about 100 students residing in Creola attended Satsuma schools.<ref name=Ericson>Ericson, Sally. "[http://blog.al.com/live/2013/08/property_taxes_a_key_issue_in.html Property taxes a key issue in potential Satsuma-Creola schools partnership, attorney says]." [[AL.com]]. August 21, 2013. Retrieved on July 29, 2016.</ref>

Due to the distance to [[Citronelle High School|Citronelle High]] (the distance by bus is about 30 minutes), several area parents wanted an annexation to the City of Satsuma and/or a partnership with the Satsuma school system. In 2013 a member of the Creola city council, Tonya Moss, stated that the city has "a bond with Satsuma" and that most of the council's members had graduated from Satsuma High.<ref name=EricsonCreolaaponders/> By 2013 there were discussions regarding a possible educational partnership between representatives of the two cities, in which the Creola city government would pay the City of Satsuma instead of Mobile County to educate its children.<ref name=Ericson/>