Maury County Public Schools
school district in Tennessee, United States
Maury County Public Schools (MCPS) is a school district headquartered in Columbia, Tennessee. It serves Maury County, the sole school district doing so.
The Maury County Board of Education is an 11-member school board governing the district. According to the Tennessee Code Annotated, the local board of education is a policy-making legislative body, and its members are classified as officials of the state. Except during an official meeting, a board member has no more power, authority or jurisdiction over school matters than any other citizen in the community.
Schools
Unit schools
Santa Fe Unit School
Hampshire Unit School
Culleoka Unit School
High schools
Spring Hill High School
Columbia Central High School
Mt. Pleasant High School
Battle Creek High School
Junior/Middle Schools
E. A. Cox Middle school
Whitthorne Middle School
Mt. Pleasant Middle School of the Visual and Performing Arts
Spring Hill Middle School
Battle Creek Middle School
Elementary schools
Highland Park Elementary School
Spring Hill Elementary School
J. R. Baker Elementary School
Joseph Brown Elementary School
Randolph Howell Elementary School
McDowell Elementary School (Permanently Closed)
Mt. Pleasant Elementary School
Riverside Elementary School
J. E. Woodard Elementary School
Marvin Wright Elementary School
Battle Creek Elementary School
Controversy
Hatton v. County Board of Education of Maury County, Tennessee (1970)
In 1968 Florence Ella Hatton was a tenured African-American elementary school teacher at Macedonia Negro School; she had been working for the school system for about six years and had an undergraduate degree from Tennessee State University and state certification.
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