Editing Drew, Mississippi (section)

==Education==
Drew was first served by the predominantly African-American [[Drew School District]].<ref name="SDProfile">"[http://www.osa.state.ms.us/documents/schools/2005/05sdrew.pdf Drew School District Audited Financial Statements For the Year Ended June 30, 2005] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309173323/http://www.osa.state.ms.us/documents/schools/2005/05sdrew.pdf |date=2012-03-09 }}." Office of the State Auditor, State of Mississippi. 12 (18/82). Retrieved on July 20, 2010.</ref><ref>"[http://www.schooldigger.com/go/MS/district/01350/search.aspx Schools in Drew School District]." Greatschools.net. Retrieved on July 20, 2010.</ref> The City of Drew is currently served by the [[Sunflower County Consolidated School District]]. Elementary and middle school students attend schools in Drew: A. W. James Elementary School (K-5) and Drew Hunter Middle School (6-8).<ref name=SCSDHandbook1213>"[http://www.sunflower.k12.ms.us/SCSD%20Student%20Handbook%202012-13.pdf Handbook 2012-2013]." ([https://web.archive.org/web/20130724191705/http://www.sunflower.k12.ms.us/SCSD%20Student%20Handbook%202012-13.pdf Archive]) Sunflower County School District. Retrieved October 9, 2013.</ref> High school students attend [[Ruleville Central High School]] in [[Ruleville, Mississippi|Ruleville]].<ref name="AmyJeff">Amy, Jeff. "[http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/2ee314a4ac1041b899c98494895b0fe1/MS--Mississippi-Schools Mississippi to return Okolona schools to local control; district merger ends Drew High School]{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}." ''[[Associated Press]]'' at ''[[The Republic (Columbus)|The Republic]]''. May 17, 2012. Retrieved June 12, 2012.</ref>

The [[North Sunflower Academy]] is in an [[unincorporated area]] of Sunflower County,<ref>"[http://www.northsunfloweracademy.com/ Home]." [[North Sunflower Academy]]. Retrieved on August 10, 2010.</ref> about {{convert|3|mi|km}} south of Drew.<ref>"[http://www.northsunfloweracademy.com/drivingdirections.html Driving directions] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714195407/http://www.northsunfloweracademy.com/drivingdirections.html |date=2011-07-14 }}." [[North Sunflower Academy]]. Retrieved on August 10, 2010.</ref> The school originated as a [[segregation academy]],<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> 
[[Mississippi Delta Community College]] has the Drew Center in Drew.<ref>"[https://web.archive.org/web/20100627081127/http://www.msdelta.edu/mdcc/off_campus_centers/index.html Off Campus Centers]." [[Mississippi Delta Community College]]. Retrieved July 20, 2010.</ref>

The Sunflower County Library operates the Drew Public Library.<ref>"[http://www.sunflower.lib.ms.us/sunflower/directory.asp Sunflower County Library Directory] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170816064852/http://www.sunflower.lib.ms.us/sunflower/directory.asp |date=August 16, 2017 }}." Sunflower County Library. Retrieved July 21, 2010.</ref>