COAHOMA AGRICULTURAL HIGH SCHOOL

'Coahoma Agricultural High School' is a public, secondary school in Coahoma County, Mississippi (USA). It is located on the campus of Coahoma Community College, approximately 4.5 miles north of Clarksdale.
The school has its own facilities, instructional and administrative personnel, and student programs. It shares library facilities with the college.
Coahoma AHS is one of three independently functioning agricultural high schools in the state of Mississippi.

Contents

History

Structure

Leadership

Superintendents

Principals

Demographics

2006-07 school year

Previous school years

Accountability statistics

See also

References

External links

History

Coahoma County Agricultural High School was established in 1924. It was one of the first agricultural high schools for Blacks in Mississippi. A junior college curriculum was added in 1949 and the institution's name was changed to Coahoma Junior College and Agricultural High School. The school was desegregated in 1965, although the student body has remained mostly and in recent years, exclusively African American.
Coahoma Junior College was removed from the title of Coahoma County Agricultural High School in 1975 and in 1981, the school began operating separately from the Coahoma County School District and dropped the word "county" from its name.
A majority of the Coahoma AHS student body comes from the towns of Friars Point, Coahoma, Lula, and Jonestown – all part of the Coahoma County School District. A limited number of students from the Clarksdale Municipal School District opt to attend Coahoma AHS instead of Clarksdale High School.

Structure

The president of Coahoma Community College also serves as superintendent of the Coahoma Agricultural High School. The same board of trustees governs both the high school and community college.
In addition to the superintendent and board of trustees, Coahoma AHS has the same administrative personnel common in other public high schools, including a principal and assistant principal.

Leadership

Superintendents

Term	Incumbent
1924 – 1925	M. L. Strange
1925 – 1929	J. M. Mosley
1929 – 1937	J. W. Addison
1937 – 1945	J. B. Wright
1945 – 1966	B. F. McLaurin
1966 – 1979	J. E. Miller
1980 – 1992	McKinley C. Martin
1992 – present	Vivian Presley

Principals

Term	Incumbent
1951 – 1954	James E. Miller
1954 – 1963	W. L. Tobias
1963 – 1974	Frank McCune
1974 – 1984	Eugene Fox
1984 – 1985	Albert Williams
1985 – 1986	Sammy Fellton
1986 – 1987	T. W. Richardson
1987 – 1993	S. T. Bailey
1993 – 1996	Olenza McBride
1996 – 2007	John Brown
2007 – present	I. D. Thompson

Demographics

2006-07 school year

There were a total of 291 students enrolled at Coahoma Agricultural High School during the 2006-2007 school year. The gender makeup of the school was 53% female and 47% male. The racial makeup of the school was 100.00% African American.^[1]

Previous school years

'School Year'	'Enrollment'	'Gender Makeup'		'Racial Makeup'
		'Female'	'Male'	'Asian'	'African American'	'Hispanic'	'Native American'	'White'
2005-06	305	53%	47%	–	100.00%	–	–	–
2004-05	313	53%	47%	–	100.00%	–	–	–
2003-04	297	55%	45%	–	100.00%	–	–	–
2002-03[2]	298	55%	45%	–	100.00%	–	–	–

Accountability statistics

	'2006-07'[3]	'2005-06'[4]	'2004-05'[5]	'2003-04'[6]	'2002-03'[7]
'District Accreditation Status'	Accredited	Accredited	Accredited	Accredited	Accredited
'School Performance Classifications'
Level 5 (Superior Performing)
Level 4 (Exemplary)
Level 3 (Successful)			X	X	X
Level 2 (Under Performing)	X	X
Level 1 (Low Performing)

See also

★ Forrest County Agricultural High School

★ Hinds County Agricultural High School

★ List of high schools in Mississippi

★ List of school districts in Mississippi

References

1. Mississippi Assessment and Accountability Reporting System
2. Mississippi Report Card for 2002-2003
3. Unofficial 2007 Results
4. 2006 Results
5. 2005 Results
6. 2004 Results
7. 2003 Results

External links

★ Coahoma Agricultural High School – Official site.

★ Coahoma Community College – Official site.