Sumter County High School

Sumter County High School was a senior high school in York, Alabama. It was a part of the Sumter County School District.

In 1968 the student body was 99.1% white and 90.1% of the teachers were white. Due to white flight, no white students remained by 1970, and about 33% of the teachers were white.[1] Many white students had been placed in Sumter Academy.[2]

The American football team had a rivalry with that of Livingston High School. The impetus to merge came because of a declining population - the county had a total of 838 students divided between the two high schools in 2009 - as well as the condition of Sumter County High and budget issues.[3] It merged with Livingston High and became Sumter Central High School in 2011.[4]

References
  1. "Fifteen Years Ago... Rural Alabama Revisited." The United States Commission on Civil Rights. Clearinghouse Publication Number 82. December 1983. p. 77 or p. 85 (PDF document p. 84/163)
  2. Farzan, Antonia Noori (2018-08-15). "Sumter County, Ala., just got its first integrated school. Yes, in 2018". Washington Post. Retrieved 2019-01-15.
  3. Reynolds, Brian (2009-02-26). "Sumter County schools may fuse". Tuscaloosa News. Retrieved 2019-01-15.
  4. Williams, Andrea (2011-08-09). "Students Attend First Day at Sumter Central High". WTOK. Retrieved 2019-01-15.


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