Nathanael Greene Academy
Private school in Siloam, Greene County, Georgia
33°31′53″N 83°04′33″W / 33.531267°N 83.0757858°W / 33.531267; -83.0757858Nathanael Greene Academy is a private PK-12 school in Siloam, Georgia, a small town in Greene County.
History
Nathanael Greene Academy was founded in 1969 as a segregation academy. Its original campus of five acres (2.0 ha) and three buildings was purchased from the town of Siloam for $100 and subsequently valued for tax purposes at $24,000. In its first year of operations it had no black students or teachers.[2]
Student body
In 2018, the school had 3 Black, and no Asian or Hispanic students.[1] Surrounding Greene County has a population that is about 40% Black.[3] For the 2018–19 school year, the student body included a low percentage of minority students.[4]
References
- ^ a b c d e "Search for Private Schools – School Detail for Nathanael Greene Academy". National Center for Education Statistics. Institute of Education Sciences. Retrieved May 7, 2021.
- ^ Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity, United States. Congress. Senate. (1970). Equal Educational Opportunity: Hearings Before the Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity, Ninety-first Congress, Second Session-92nd Congress, First Session, Volume 10. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 2012,2018,2120. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
No Negro students applied.
- ^ "DP02 SELECTED SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS IN THE UNITED STATES – 2006-2010 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on 2020-02-13. Retrieved 2015-12-29.
- ^ Felton, Emmanuel (June 17, 2018). "'It's like a black and white thing': How some elite charter schools exclude minorities". NBCNews. The Hechinger Report. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
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