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On July 9, 2020, the Shenandoah County School Board voted to change the school's name from "Stonewall Jackson High School" to "Mountain View High School." As Stonewall Jackson High School, it was named for Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, a Civil War general who fought for the Confederacy. At the same time, the school board also voted to change the ...
Shenandoah County Public Schools serves more than 5,600 students, and about 75% are White, 18% Hispanic and 3% Black, data from the state’s department education shows. CNN’s Paradise Afshar ...
Shenandoah County School Board voted five to one in favour of reinstating the original names of two schools
By a 5-1 vote, the Shenandoah County board overturned its 2020 decision that stripped a public high school and elementary school of their original names honoring three military leaders of the pro ...
Note: In 2020, the Shenandoah County School Board voted to change the name of Stonewall Jackson High School to Mountain View High School. In 2024, the school board reversed that decision, reverting the name to Stonewall Jackson High School [1]
In 2024, the Shenandoah County school board voted to restore Confederate names to Quicksburg district's Ashby-Lee Elementary and Stonewall Jackson High schools after having removed them in 2020. This appears to be the first district in the country to restore Confederate names once removed from schools. [3]
The Virginia NAACP sued the school board in Shenandoah County after it voted to change Mountain View High School to Stonewall Jackson High School and Honey Run Elementary back to Ashby Lee Elementary.
Stonewall Jackson High School was the name of several schools in the United States: Stonewall Jackson High School (Kanawha County, West Virginia), closed in 1989, now West Side Middle School since 2020. Unity Reed High School in Bull Run, Virginia was called Stonewall Jackson High School until 2020.