[1] W. B. Reed Elementary School was closed down in the year 2010 due to low enrollment.
It was reported that the Noxubee County school district was able to save $500,000 after just one year of not operating Reed Elementary.
[2] In 1968, when the federal government mandated integration of public schools, Central Academy was founded in Macon as a segregation academy where white children could attend without having to go to school with black students.
[3] In 1982, private deals between board members and the academy to use public funds came to light.
The NAACP responded by calling for the resignation of all Noxubee county school board members who had knowledge of the board's aid to the Academy, which at the time still did not enroll any black students.