Copiah Academy

Copiah Academy is an independent, coeducational, school for students in grades K3-12.

The Copiah Educational Foundation established the school in 1967 as a segregation academy.

[2] The school is located in Copiah County, near the unincorporated community of Gallman, Mississippi.

The demographic breakdown of the 695 K–12 students enrolled in 2013–2014:[1] Copiah Academy's first classes were held in 1967 in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, just a few miles south of its current location.

[4] Although founded as a school for white students,[2][5] Copiah Academy now claims that it is open to college-bound students of any race, color, creed, religion, gender, or ethnic origin,[5] but as of the 2013–2014 school year, the student body was 98.4% non-Hispanic white in a county where the overall percentage of non-Hispanic white people was 44.9%.