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The Picayune School District is a public school district based in Picayune, Mississippi . The district is located in southwestern Pearl River County, where it includes almost all of Picayune, the Nicholson census-designated place, and a small section of the Hide-A-Way Lake CDP. [1] It extends into a small portion of Hancock County. [2]
Picayune Memorial High School is a grade 9–12 high school located in Picayune, Mississippi, United States.It is in the Picayune School District.. Communities in the school district (of which this is the sole comprehensive high school) are almost all of Picayune, the Nicholson census-designated place, and a small section of the Hide-A-Way Lake CDP.
A small section is in the Pearl River County School District. [10] Within the Picayune school district: Picayune Junior High School serves as the middle school for grades 7 and 8. [11] Picayune Memorial High School is the local high school. The school's mascot is the Maroon Tide. The Center of Alternate Education is also located in Picayune.
Carver was founded as East Side Colored School in 1919. When the school was renamed Carver, it also absorbed another black school, the Pearl River County Training School . That school had been originally constructed in 1900, then replaced in 1919 by a Rosenwald School , also known as Pearl River County Training School . [ 1 ]
Pearl River County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi.The population was 56,145 at the 2020 census. [1] Its county seat is Poplarville. [2] Pearl River County comprises the Picayune, MS Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the New Orleans-Metairie-Hammond, LA-MS Combined Statistical Area.
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The current publication is the result of the 2019 acquisition of The Times-Picayune (which was the result of the 1914 union of The Picayune with the Times-Democrat) by the New Orleans edition of The Advocate in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The Times-Picayune was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2006 for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina.
In 1968 the district had 4,100 "colored" students and about 1,000 white students. At that time the district had a "freedom of choice" system. During that year, the superintendent of the school system stated his opposition to a proposed rapid integration, arguing that doing so would cause white people to leave the school district.