Central Delta Academy


Central Delta Academy was a private high school in Inverness, Mississippi, that operated from 1969 to 2010. It was founded as a segregation academy by white parents fleeing newly integrated public schools. The school closed on May 21, 2010; its building was to be auctioned off several weeks later.

History

The Central Delta Academy's athletic mascot was "The Tigers." As of 1990, the Central Delta Academy and Inverness High School women's basketball teams had never faced off against each other. They were in different systems.
By the early 21st century, CDA and Inverness High School sponsored joint Homecoming weekends and events.
In 1987 the school's parent teacher organization published The Sharecropper, a collection of area recipes.

Campus

The building was constructed in 1922 as Inverness School, the town's public "white school," which housed white students in grades 1-12 until the end of the era of racial segregation.
The school was situated on U.S. Highway 49, about south of Indianola and north of Belzoni.