Jamestown Academy (Virginia)

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Jamestown Academy was a private school in James City County, Virginia, established in 1964 when the local public schools were ordered to desegregate following the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling.^[1]

Jamestown Academy
Location
James City County, Virginia
Coordinates	37.306149°N 76.73587299°W / 37.306149; -76.73587299
Information
Type	Private
Opened	1964
Closed	1989
Grades	K-8
Campus size	8 acres (3.2 ha)
Campus type	Suburban

Tuition at Jamestown was covered in part by state tuition grants. Grants to a "nonprofit, nonsectarian private school", even segregation academies, were upheld by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.^[2] On March 9, 1965, in Griffin v. State Board of Education, state tuition grants to white-only schools were found to be unconstitutional.^[3]

The school closed in 1989.^[4]