Oak Hill Academy is a private PK-12 school in West Point, Mississippi, the seat of Clay County, Mississippi. The school serves about 400 students. It was founded as a segregation academy in 1966.

History

Oak Hill was refused tax-exempt status by the IRS in the 1970s for refusal to execute a policy of non-discrimination.^[1]

The school's policy was a matter of questioning at the Senate confirmation of Lyonel Thomas Senter Jr. as a federal judge. His children attended Oak Hill.^[1]

In 1987, Oak Hill was still an all-white school, as described in Fyfe v. Curlee.^[2] In 2016, the school had no black students registered.^[3] By 2021, the National Center for Education Statistics reported the school had 279 students, of whom two were Black and four Hispanic.^[4] The racial makeup of Clay County is 56.33% Black or African American, 42.82% White, 0.05% Native American, 0.16% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.21% from other races, and 0.42% from two or more races. 0.86% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

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