Type School district Superintendent Jay Foster | Grades K-12 Number of schools 4 | |
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School board Dr. Brant Kairit (President), Carol Stigler (Secretary), Dwayne Casey, Jeffery Patton, Cheryl Pegues Website www.senatobiaschools.com | ||
The Senatobia Municipal School District is a public school district based in Senatobia, Mississippi (USA). As of June 2015, the district's superintendent is Jay Foster.
Contents
- Map of Senatobia Municipal School District MS USA
- Schools
- 2013 14 school year
- 2006 07 school year
- 2015 graduation cheering controversy
- References
Map of Senatobia Municipal School District, MS, USA
Schools
2013-14 school year
There were a total of 1,834 students enrolled in the Senatobia Municipal School District during the 2013-2014 school year. The gender makeup of the district was 49% female and 51% male. The racial makeup of the district was 46.78% African American, 49.95% White, 2.67% Hispanic, and 0.60% other.
2006-07 school year
There were a total of 1,804 students enrolled in the Senatobia Municipal School District during the 2006-2007 school year. The gender makeup of the district was 49% female and 51% male. The racial makeup of the district was 40.91% African American, 57.43% White, 1.33% Hispanic, and 0.33% Asian. 43.1% of the district's students were eligible to receive free lunch.
2015 graduation cheering controversy
At Senatobia High School's May 21, 2015, graduation ceremony (held at Northwest Mississippi Community College), audience members were asked to hold their applause until the end of the ceremony. Four people cheered as their family member was awarded their diploma, and were subsequently escorted out of the ceremony. School officials then filed disturbing the peace charges against three of them (carrying a possible penalty of up to a $500 fine or 6 months in jail). One person could not be identified, and thus, wasn't charged. In interviews with WREG-TV, one of those accused, said she called out her daughter's name as she received her diploma, while another said he yelled "you did it baby".
Superintendent Jay Foster defended the charges, saying "The goal was to allow all graduates to have the privilege of hearing their name called". After the ceremony, Foster contacted Zabron Davis, Chief of Police for Northwest Mississippi Community College, and filed disturbing the peace charges. Those charged were served with arrest warrants about two weeks later. An online petition calling for the charges to be dropped had received over 12,000 signatures by June 7. On June 8, 2015, the school district dropped the charges.