North Sunflower Academy is a private school, founded to provide a segregated education for white students[2] in unincorporated Sunflower County, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta area, between Ruleville and Drew.

[5] As of 2002, the school draws students from Doddsville, Drew, Merigold, Ruleville, Schlater, Tutwiler, and Webb.

As a result some Parchman employees sent their children to North Sunflower Academy, and the State of Mississippi used general support funds to pay for some of North Sunflower Academy's transportation costs, including school buses, bus drivers, and gasoline.

[6] According to Charles Bussey, author of the 2004 book Where We Stand: Voices of Southern Dissent, the assistant superintendent of the North Sunflower Academy discussed with him high expulsion, suspension, and dropout rates in Drew High School, which at that time had become mostly black.

The athletic teams participate using the nickname Rebels, a reference to the army Confederate States of America, which sought to maintain slavery of African-Americans.