Marvell Academy is a private K-12 school in unincorporated Phillips County Arkansas, near Marvell, which was founded as a segregation academy.

[3] In 1966, Marvell Academy was the first of many private schools founded by white parents in Arkansas to avoid integration.

[4] Many of the parents here were members of a White Citizens Council,[4] believing that "Integration is the corruption of the true American heritage by alien concept and ideology".

[9] A 1969 Time Magazine editorial article, describing the emergence of segregation academies, noted that "Few of them are quite so openly redneck as the Marvell Academy.

[11] The Academy participates in academic competitions including spelling bee, reading fair, science fair, and art fair, as well as athletics including football, cheerleading, basketball, baseball, softball, track and field, and golf through the MAIS.