Draft:J. F. Shields High School

J. F. Shields High School is in Beatrice, Alabama. Its student body is about 99 percent African American. Until 1972 it was Monroe County Training School. Bulldogs are the school mascot. Monroe County Training School's principal was J. F. Shields. Marva Collins taught at the school. Juanita Abernathy also taught at the school.

History
Monroe County Training School is noted in a 1922 Educational Directory of Alabama. Marie Bankhead Owen's encyclopedia of Alabama describes the school as a "leading school for the Negro race".

Union High School was established on the site of the former Bethlehem Industrial Academy in Monroeville, Alabama's Clausell Community.

Basketball player John Drew set division records at the school. He led the team to a stare championship in 1972.

An early warning truancy program was studied at the school and a report on it published in 1996. Marion Mcintosh served as the school's principal.

In 1999 it was noted as one of the district's schools with the highest levels of poverty.

Athletics
In 1971, the school competed against St. Jude, Georgiana, G.P. Austin, Marengo, Camden Academy, Keith, Tuskegee Institute, Mount Olive, Southern Normal, and John Essex.

Basketball coach W. R. Averett was inducted into the division's high school hall of fame in 2015.

Alumni

 * John Drew (basketball)
 * Clinton James Black