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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (abbreviated CMS) is a local education agency headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina and is the public school system for Mecklenburg County. With over 147,000 students enrolled, it is the second-largest school district in North Carolina and the eighteenth-largest in the nation. [ 2 ]
The school opened in 1988. In the 1990s, after voters rejected a Houston Independent School District $390 million bond package, superintendent Rod Paige contracted with River Oaks Academy, the Varnett School, and Wonderland School to house 250 students who could not be placed in HISD schools. The schools were paid $3,565 per student.
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History. River Oaks School was as founded in 1969 as a segregation academy in response to the court ordered desegregation of public schools. [1] In 1984, the school's alleged racially discriminatory admission policy formed part of the basis of the Supreme Court case Allen v. Wright.
The Louisiana Independent School Association (1970–1992), more commonly known as LISA, was an athletic association created to offer interscholastic sports at all-white segregation academies in the state of Louisiana. [ 1] The organization is no longer in existence. In its ruling on Brumfield v.
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Donald R. McAdams wrote that in 1995, at the time of the political turf battle involving River Oaks Elementary and neighborhood students, River Oaks was a "middle class school." [36] The student mix was 40% White, 30% Black, 28% Hispanic, and 1% Asian. 9% of students qualified for free and reduced lunch. According to HISD standards, all of the ...
Prior to its conversion to a K-8 school, it served until grade 6. In the 1998–1999 school year the student population went down by 60 students, due to gentrification in the Montrose area. [10] In the 2008–2009 school year Wharton was scheduled to add the seventh grade. [11] The eighth grade was scheduled to follow shortly afterwards.