Jefferson Academy|Academy and Vocational School (Location Key)

Originally the Jefferson Academy seems to be a private school for the children of the county's upper class, as separate from Jefferson's high school as they both are from the town's one "Negro grammar and high school" (The Mansion, 246). Charles Mallison attends the Academy in "Knight's Gambit" and The Mansion. According to that first fiction, it is not segregated by gender: Charles' mother went to "the female half of the Academy" (152). According to that second fiction, however, after World War II, probably in response to the G.I. Bill that helped so many returning soldiers further their education, "the Jefferson Academy" adds a "vocational school" (373). Vocational training in Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha would be intended for young men from the lower class.