Centreville Academy

Centreville Academy is a private PK-12 school in Centreville, Mississippi. It serves 357 students from Amite County and adjacent Wilkinson County.

Centreville Academy
Location
Centreville, Mississippi
Coordinates	31.0768351°N 91.0611015°W / 31.0768351; -91.0611015
Information
Established	19 January 1970; 55 years ago (1970-01-19)[1]
NCES School ID	00736221
Faculty	24.3[2]
Enrollment	357 (2016[2])
Nickname	Tigers
Website	www.catigers.com

History

At the end of the 1950s, as part of the Massive resistance to the desegregation of the educational system ordered by the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education many white students were enrolled in newly-established segregation academies which included Centreville Academy.^[3] As segregation faded in popularity most of these institutions changed their openly discriminatory policies and in 2016, the school had one black student.^[2]

Athletics

The school offers the following sports:

• Football — MAIS class AA champions in 1976, 1979, 1989, 1991, 1998, 1999, 2007, and 2008. Class AAA 2010, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2023. ^[4] under Bill Hurst, who has been coach at Centreville for more than forty years.^[5]
• Softball
• Track
• Basketball
• Baseball
• Tennis
• Archery

Alumni

• Matt Tolbert - baseball player ^[6]