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There were a total of 2,394 students enrolled in the Lafayette County School District during the 2006–2007 school year. The gender makeup of the district was 47% female and 53% male. The racial makeup of the district was 29.20% African American, 69.13% White, 1.42% Hispanic, 0.13% Native American, and 0.13% Asian.
Lafayette County is a county in the U.S. state of Mississippi. At the 2020 census, the population was 55,813. [1] Its county seat is Oxford. [2] The local pronunciation of the name is "la-FAY-et." The county's name honors Marquis de Lafayette, a French military hero and American general who fought during the American Revolutionary War. [3]
The superintendent is voted on and elected by the school board. From 2013 through 2017 the superintendent was Brian Harvey. Harvey graduated from the district in 1990 and worked in the district for 17 years; as a middle and high school teacher, the assistant principal at Oxford High School, and the principal at both Central Elementary and Oxford Middle School.
Maxwell is a past president of the Young Lawyers Division of the Mississippi Bar Association, the Lafayette County Bar Association, and Tri-County Young Lawyers. He has also served on the Board of Bar Commissioners, the Mississippi Bar Foundation, the Diversity in the Law Committee, and the Board of Directors of the Mississippi Prosecutors ...
Boyd grew up in Oxford, Mississippi. [3] She is the daughter of Lafayette County Extension Home Economist, Joyce Akins and Noal Akins, [3] who was an educator, coach, businessman, and former representative of the 12th district in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 2004 to 2012. [4]
Waller was born on October 21, 1926, near Oxford in Lafayette County, Mississippi, to Percy A. Waller and Myrtle Gatewood. [1] He and his two siblings worked on their parents' 300 acres (1.2 km 2) farm in their youth. The family was not affluent, but fared better than many of their neighbors during the Great Depression.
Lafayette William C. Bowman: 1916–1920 9th Democratic 1882–1974 Dan Boyce: 1972–1976 Rankin Democratic 1938– Gordan Boyd: 1837–1840 1844 Attala, Neshoba John D. Boyd: 1844 Leake, Neshoba Nicole Akins Boyd: 2020– Lafayette Republican William A. Boyd: 1884–1888 1896–1900 1904–1908 Union, Tippah, Benton, others Democratic 1833 ...
Oxford is in central Lafayette County in northern Mississippi, about 75 miles (121 km) south-southeast of Memphis, Tennessee. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 26.7 square miles (69.2 km 2 ), of which 26.6 square miles (68.9 km 2 ) are land and 0.1 square miles (0.2 km 2 ), or 0.35%, is water. [ 12 ]