Monroe Academy

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| head of school = Stephen Matthew Coker

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| grades = K3 – 12

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Monroe Academy (often referred to as MA) is a private day school, accredited by the Alabama Independent School Association and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, which offers coeducational college preparatory classes for students from K-3 through grade 12.

Monroe Academy is located in Monroeville, Alabama and was founded in 1969 as a segregation academy.{{Cite book| last=Bagley |first = Joseph|title=The politics of white rights: race, justice, and integrating Alabama's schools |date = December 15, 2018|isbn=978-0-8203-5418-7 |location=Athens| publisher = University of Georgia Press| page =180| oclc=1065537539}} In 1969, the headmaster told the Atlanta Constitution that he was "sure the integration was one of the primary reasons for the school be established".{{Cite news | date = November 9, 1969 | newspaper = Atlanta Constitution | page = 1 | title = They spring up everywhere | first = Junie | last = Brown | url =https://www.newspapers.com/image/398416635/}}

According to the Los Angeles Times, many parents struggled to afford the tuition and made financial sacrifices to avoid sending their children to racially integrated public schools. In 1982, Jerry Steele, Monroe Academy's first board chairman, stated that the school's lack of racial integration was because the school "is run by the people who put up the money."{{Cite news| url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/169420018/|title=White Academies: Dual School Systems in South Thrive| first=Cimons|last=Marlene|work=The Los Angeles Times|access-date=October 31, 2017| date=March 1, 1982| language=en}}

The school has an enrollment of over 400 students, all of them white. {{asof|2022}}, although Monroe Academy has posted a non-discrimination policy on their website,{{cite web |title=About the School |url=http://www.monroeacademy.org/?PageName=%27AboutTheSchool%27|website=Monroe Academy}} there has yet to be a single black student admitted.{{cite web|last1=Haynes|first1=Tucker|title=Why Should Tax Dollars Go to Schools Designed to Segregate?|url=https://www.the74million.org/article/tucker-haynes-why-should-tax-dollars-go-to-schools-designed-to-segregate/|accessdate=November 14, 2017|page=1}}