At the time the county had fourteen public schools, three of which were majority white.
White people reacted to the Lee v. Macon County Board of Education case.
By 1970,[3] Sumter County Schools had been ordered to de facto desegregate through the courts.
[5] In 2018 the district board attempted to get an injunction against the opening of University Charter School (UCS).
[17] As of 2016[update] the district lacked extracurricular programs and did not have any baseball or soccer teams.