Editing Tutwiler, Mississippi (section)

==Education==
The Town of Tutwiler is served by the [[West Tallahatchie School District]]. Residents are zoned to [[R.H. Bearden Elementary School]] near [[Sumner, Mississippi|Sumner]] and [[West Tallahatchie High School]] near [[Webb, Mississippi|Webb]].<ref>"[http://www2.mde.k12.ms.us/6812/bearden2.html Welcome to R.H. Bearden Elementary School] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100310192532/http://www2.mde.k12.ms.us/6812/bearden2.html |date=2010-03-10 }}." [[West Tallahatchie School District]]. Retrieved on October 15, 2010.</ref><ref>"[http://www2.mde.k12.ms.us/6812/WTHS%20HP.htm West Tally Home Page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719023124/http://www2.mde.k12.ms.us/6812/WTHS%20HP.htm |date=2011-07-19 }}." [[West Tallahatchie School District]]. Retrieved on October 15, 2010.</ref> Hopson Bayou Elementary School served children in Tutwiler,<ref name=MikellWestTallylonger>{{cite news|last=Mikell|first=Ray S.|title=West Tallahatchie students face longer classes, new staff|newspaper=[[The Greenwood Commonwealth]]|place=[[Greenwood, Mississippi]]|date=August 14, 1988|page=7A}} - [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/78844117/for-west-tallahatchie-school-district/ Clipping] from [[Newspapers.com]].</ref> until it closed as a zoned school in 1993 and became an alternative school for troubled youth.<ref>{{cite news|title=Schools preparing for start of classes|newspaper=[[The Charleston Sun-Sentinel]]|date=August 5, 1993|place=[[Charleston, Mississippi]]|volume=70|issue=31|page=A1}} - [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/78845197/for-east-and-west-tallahatchie-school-di/ Clipping] from [[Newspapers.com]].</ref> In 1997 the district closed the Hopson Bayou campus and moved the alternative school to the former Sumner Elementary.<ref name=Schoolbells1997>{{cite news|title=School bells to ring out start of 1997-98 session|newspaper=[[The Charleston Sun-Sentinel]]|date=July 31, 1997|volume=74|issue=31|pages=1, 12}} - [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/78847354/for-west-tally-schools/ Clipping of page 1] and [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/78847385/for-west-tally-schools/ Clipping of page 12], [[Newspapers.com]].</ref> Previously West District Middle School (now Bearden School) served as a middle school for the area.<ref name=MikellWestTallylonger/>

As of 2002 some children in Tutwiler attended the [[North Sunflower Academy]], a private school, in [[unincorporated area|unincorporated]] [[Sunflower County, Mississippi|Sunflower County]],<ref name="Workforce">"[https://web.archive.org/web/20110615051347/http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-1755958/No-simple-solutions-to-education.html No simple solutions to education, workforce training problems. (Focus Delta & River Cities)]," ''[[Mississippi Business Journal]]''. May 27, 2002. Retrieved on August 10, 2010.</ref> Others attended private schools [[Delta Academy (Mississippi)|Delta Academy]] in [[Marks, Mississippi|Marks]], and [[Lee Academy (Mississippi)|Lee Academy]] in [[Clarksdale, Mississippi|Clarksdale]].{{citation needed|date=May 2021}}<!--Need published sources saying this-->