Strider Academy was a PK-12 school in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, United States, which operated from 1971 until 2018.

The school was said to be named after Clarence Strider, the Tallahatchie County Sheriff who obstructed the investigation of the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till in a successful attempt to acquit the murderers.

[5] In 1989, Greenwood public schools trustee Jeff Milman of Tippo resigned after the NAACP protested his decision to enroll his children in Strider Academy instead of racially integrated public schools.

Milman stated that his children wanted to attend Strider and that it was closer to his residence.

[6] In 1993, the school did not receive an increase in admissions from Greenwood parents; at the time white parents were concerned about a plan to put all students in the same middle school in Greenwood.