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New Albany School District

school district in Mississippi

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 15, 2025
Entity authorityQ7005252 ↗
Source-derived summary

The New Albany School District is a public school district based in New Albany, Mississippi (USA).

The district includes almost all of New Albany and some unincorporated areas.

Schools

New Albany High School (Formerly W. P. Daniel High School, opened 1962)

New Albany Middle School

New Albany Elementary School

Demographics

2006-07 school year

There were a total of 2,201 students enrolled in the New Albany School District during the 2006–2007 school year. The gender makeup of the district was 48% female and 52% male. The racial makeup of the district was 34.58% African American, 58.75% White, 5.95% Hispanic, and 0.73% Asian. 45.6% of the district's students were eligible to receive free lunch.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “New Albany School District” is school district in Mississippi. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Albany, School and District, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1962, 2006, 2007—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Albany, School and District is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “school district in Mississippi” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 15, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7005252. The first chronological checks are 1962, 2006 and 2007.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “New Albany School District”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow New Albany School District primary sources, New Albany School District archive and Albany research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “New Albany School District”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “New Albany School District” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.