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Northpoint Christian School
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Northpoint Christian School (NCS) is a private, coeducational, college preparatory Christian school founded as a segregation academy. Located in Southaven, Mississippi. NCS was founded in 1973 by a group of Baptist ministers in the Whitehaven section of Memphis, Tennessee. Programs for kindergarten through Grade 8 began in 1973, and grades 9-12 were added the following year. The school is dually accredited with SAIS and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. NCS is also a member of the Association of Christian Schools International, the TAIS, and the TSSAA. As of 2014, the school was the third-largest private school in Greater Memphis. For the 2022-2023 school year, they are celebrating their 50th anniversary of the schools creation.
NCS was established in 1973 as a segregation academy formed by white parents seeking to avoid sending their children to racially integrated public schools. NCS was established shortly after a busing policy was established in Memphis.
In 1988, after what the school claimed was "The area was losing professionals as well as families who could afford to send their children to SBEC." The school moved from Memphis, Tennessee, to suburban Southaven, Mississippi as many white people of Memphis were moving to Southaven at that time during white flight.
Prior to the 2013-2014 school year, the school was known as Southern Baptist Educational Center (SBEC).
On April 29, 2022, Northpoint was criticized by Memphis local news source, WMC-TV,reported that a teacher put signs of "colored" and "whites" over water fountains for a civil rights lesson, while alarming questions and criticisms, the current president, Jim Ferguson, defended it as "part of a lesson plan".
The Memphis campus, located at the intersection of Holmes Road and Tulane Road, was utilized from 1974 until 1988, when it was sold to the Memphis City School System. There is no information available on where their former location was originally in Memphis, only the school started in Memphis
The school campus relocated to Southaven, Mississippi, in September 1988.
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