Stone High School (Mississippi)

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Stone High School (Mississippi)

Coordinates: 30°51′21″N 89°08′03″W / 30.855967°N 89.134212°W

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Stone High School
Address

400 East Border Avenue Wiggins, MS 39577 United States
Coordinates	30°51′21″N 89°08′03″W / 30.855967°N 89.134212°W / 30.855967; -89.134212
Information
Type	Public
School district	Stone County School District
Teaching staff	55.89 (FTE)^[1]
Grades	9–12
Enrollment	722 (2022-2023)^[1]
Student to teacher ratio	12.92^[1]
Color(s)	Blue and White
Mascot	Tomcat
Website	www.stoneschools.org/shs/

Stone High School is a public high school located in Wiggins, Mississippi, United States. It is the only high school in the Stone County School District.

History

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Prior to federally mandated integration in 1969, Stone County maintained separate schools for white students and black students. Stone High School served the white students, while Stone County Training School, built in 1955 and renamed W.P. Locker High School in 1959, served the African-American students.^[2] After integration, Locker became Stone Middle School.^[3] Locker's principal, Needham Jones, a former Tuskegee airman,^[4] was demoted to assistant principal at Stone Middle, although he was more qualified than the white principal at Stone High. Jones sued and won, but retired rather than take the position of principal at Stone High.^[5]

In 2016, a group of white students at Stone High put a noose around a black student's neck. Local law enforcement discouraged the student's family from filing a report.^[6] The student was disciplined by the school and removed from the football team by coach John Feaster, the school's first African-American coach in any sport. In 2016, 75% of the school's 800 students were white.^[7]

A 2017 report showed that white students were 3.2 times more likely to be in an AP class than black students, and that black students were 3 times more likely to be disciplined than white students.^[8]

Notable alumni

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Chris Boykin, television personality^[9]
Sammy Brown, professional football player
D.J. Davis, professional baseball player
Justin Evans, professional football player
Marcus Hinton, professional football player
Rebekah Jones, data scientist and geographer^[10]
Fred Lewis, professional baseball player
Stevon Moore, professional football player

Notable faculty

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Ode Burrell, professional football player, coached at Stone High^[11]

References

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^ ^a ^b ^c "STONE HIGH SCHOOL". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved September 7, 2024.
^ "Professor W.P. Locker". Retrieved 18 December 2018.
^ "Stone County honors Locker High School". 17 February 2017. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
^ "Needham Jones". Retrieved 18 December 2018.
^ "Needham Jones". Retrieved 18 December 2018.
^ Hawkins, Derek (25 October 2016). "White high schoolers in Miss. put noose around black student's neck and 'yanked,' NAACP says". Retrieved 19 November 2017.
^ Edwards, Breanna (27 October 2016). "High School Student Disciplined in Miss. Noose Incident". Retrieved 18 December 2018.
^ "Miseducation Stone County School District". Retrieved 18 December 2018.
^ "Big Black and Bam Bam | The Locker Room". Lockerroommag.com. Retrieved 2017-05-02.
^ Berryhill, Lyndy (December 16, 2020). Fla. health official accused of being 'whistleblower' is a Stone High graduate. Stone County Enterprise
^ "Fun Fact: Ode Burrell". Retrieved 18 December 2018.

External links

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Official website

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