Woodland Hills Academy was a private high school in Jackson, Mississippi, established in 1969 when the Jackson School Board was ordered to desegregate following the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling.
[1] Woodland Hills was one of many private schools formed in Mississippi.
[2] When the school opened in 1970, the Mississippi state Textbook Department illegally supplied books to the academy.
[3] Jackson, Mississippi was the home of the single largest sponsor of private segregated schools (segregation academies) in the United States, the Citizens' Council[2] The campus site known variously as 401 Sheppard Road and 5055 Manhattan Road was the site of Council Manhattan High School (1966-1983).
Woodland Hills Baptist Academy took over the site.