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The University of Southern Mississippi is committed to making your educational experience on the Mississippi Gulf Coast both productive and enriching, personally and professionally.
You will find the faculty and staff competent, friendly, and eager to assist you in your educational pursuits. We understand that students come from diverse backgrounds and have a variety of educational needs and past experiences.
When you come to USM Gulf Coast you will find a diversity of students to stimulate your thinking and to augment the exceptional teaching by our excellent faculty. Your education here will prepare you well for life and living in the twenty-first century. As you finalize your university choice please feel free to visit our campus and talk with our faculty, staff and students. We welcome you to become a part of us.
Locations:
GULF PARK CAMPUS
This campus is the location of the administrative offices and is the central teaching facility for USM Gulf Coast. It is located in Long Beach, fronting the Gulf of Mexico. This campus offers easy accessibility to both Harrison and Hancock counties via Highway 90. It is the site of the famous Friendship Oak.
Gulf Park Campus (228) 865-4500
Admissions (228) 865-4503
Financial Aid (228) 865-4513
Recruitment (228) 865-4599
KEESLER CENTER
(228) 374-8348 or (228) 377-2309
USM Keesler is located on Keesler Air Force Base a few blocks north of Highway 90 in Biloxi. The on-site USM office is located in Room 219 at the Sablich Center. This location provides convenient courses for military personnel, as well as the civilian community.
JACKSON COUNTY CENTER
(228) 497-3636
USM Jackson County is located on the Jackson County Campus of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College on Highway 90 in Gautier. This center offers courses and services for the convenience of students in Jackson County.
STENNIS CENTER
(228) 688-3366
The Stennis Space Center offers credit and non-credit courses on site in Bay St. Louis.
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Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College |
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From academic transfer programs to workforce training, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College has it all. The latest in technology and instruction takes a front seat at Gulf Coast, because that’s what enables us to meet your needs faster and better. Maybe that’s why Gulf Coast is one of the largest of Mississippi’s 15 public community and junior colleges. Maybe that’s why the college served over 28,000 people last year.
Gulf Coast is affordable, with tuition that’s one of the lowest in the state. Plus, its textbook rental service means big savings for students.
Jefferson Davis Campus
(228) 896-3355
Located just over a mile from the Mississippi beach, the Jefferson Davis Campus in Gulfport gives you the advantage of close-to-home education with an emphasis on quality and variety.
Just like the Gulf Coast’s other two campuses, Perkinston and Jackson County, the JD Campus gives you everything you need: academic and vo-tech programs, fine arts activities, an active student body, clubs and organizations, workforce development and so much more.
JD is also the home of top-achieving students. Each year, several vocational and technical students bring home top awards from district, state and even national competitions. For top-ranked academic students wanting even more challenges, there’s the Honors Program, which offers both career and financial advantages.
Jackson County Campus
(228) 497-9602
The Jackson County Campus in Gautier, MS, welcomed its first students in 1965 and has grown, along with the rest of the college, to become part of a growing trend of affordable, accessible education.
Today, the campus and its sister locations offer the first two years of a four-year undergraduate degree. One- and two-year programs are also popular options at the campus. Through vocational and technical training, industry-specific skills are taught hands-on style.
If you’re interested in transferring to the University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast through our special Two Plus Two program, visit the USM campus neighboring the JC campus.
West Harrison County Occupational Training Center
(228) 868-6057
Located in Long Beach Industrial Park, the West Harrison Center is home to several of Gulf Coast’s secondary and post secondary programs. These offerings encompass programs of instruction in the following occupations: Business and Computers, Health Occupations, Electricity/Electronics, Cooking/Baking, Precision Metalwork, EMT/Paramedic, Diversified Technology, Drafting, Automotive Body Repair, Automotive Mechanics, Landscape Construction and Design and Aquaculture.
Like it’s sister campuses and centers, the West Harrison County Center boast of students who bring home top awards from Skills USA (VICA) and Phi Beta Lambda competitions. |
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Nativity B.V.M. Elementary School
(228) 432-2269
Nativity BVM is one of the accredited elementary schools administered by the Catholic Diocese of Biloxi. Its history connects with that of Sacred Heart Academy, which began in 1875, under the direction of the Sisters of Mercy. By 1956, Biloxi had more children than Sacred Heart could accommodate, so the newly constructed Nativity BVM Elementary School opened its doors to serve the local community. Throughout its history, the school has maintained accreditation by the State of Mississippi and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
Our school currently has children in Pre-kindergarten 3 through Grade 6 – representing various ethnic groups, cultures, religious affiliations and economic levels. Besides developing standard areas of curriculum, our fully certified staff members support the family in teaching Christian values, morals and beliefs that will carry our young people into the everyday world.
The Christian community of Nativity BVM School strives to help its students develop into creative, Christ-centered persons. We provide an environment where the Gospel message is proclaimed and lived. Love, prayerfulness, justice, and peace are fostered and a generous spirit of service to the entire family is encouraged. We recognize parents/guardians as the primary educators of their children and in cooperation with them, we strive to help each child grow into a fully integrated human person. We do this by providing an education that has as its goal the development of each child’s spiritual, intellectual, aesthetic, social, psychological and physical capacities.
Our Lady of Fatima
(228) 388-3602
Our Lady of Fatima is a Catholic elementary school in Biloxi. It opened on September 11, 1961 with an enrollment of 250 students. Sisters of the Presentation Order from Youghal Community, County Cork, Ireland staffed the school along with several lay teachers, educating children in grades Kindergarten through sixth grade. For forty years the school was administered by religious, but is now staffed by Catholic or Christian lay people.
Our Lady of Fatima has undergone many physical and internal changes in its forty years of operation. Pre-kindergarten classes, physical education program, computer lab, additional north classroom building and playground equipment are among these positive changes. Students are involved in a solid Catholic and academic educational system but benefit from an extracurricular repertoire second to none. The students have numerous opportunities to participate in such activities as DARE program, poetry contests, city-wide art and writing contest, band, accelerated reading (AR), science fairs, book fairs, church choir, project read, field trips, speakers and guests from the community, St. Vincent de Paul food pantry projects, and the Saltillo missions. Students attend weekly mass where they serve as cantors and sing in the choir.
St. Patrick Catholic High School
(228) 702-0500
St. Patrick Catholic High School is a regional high school of the Biloxi Diocese. It is located in southern Mississippi and ministers to students who desire an environment and program of learning that centers around the traditions of the Roman Catholic faith. By adopting an approach of educating the whole person – spirit, body, mind – St. Patrick's provides the fundamental principles which give our students the opportunities to understand and face future challenges. Our philosophy represents an ideal to which our entire community aspires. St. Patrick's is a family of students, staff, parents, alumni, and friends that share faith, hard work, and a deep desire to serve the Lord by serving each other in an atmosphere of Christian giving. StPCHS – indeed, a wonderful place to send your child!
St. Patrick Catholic High School serves students who desire an environment and program of learning that deeply encompasses the spiritual and intellectual traditions of the Catholic Church. Our school seeks to educate the whole person by providing the basic principles which help our young people achieve and excel by following the path of Jesus Christ. We strive to give every student the opportunities to understand the world in which they live, and to face future challenges with inner strength and resolve.
Our philosophy represents the ideal to which our entire school community aspires. These are the goals we seek to implement and realize our philosophy at St. Patrick Catholic High School:
· To promote the growth of faith in Jesus Christ and His Church through prayer, worship, and service to the school and greater community.
· To recognize and respect the intrinsic worth of every human being.
· To foster the Christian moral values of justice and charity through good citizenship.
· To develop and apply analytical, critical, and creative thinking processes.
· To develop linguistic, mathematical, scientific, and perceptual skills.
· To provide guidance in the development of a career.
· To cultivate a concern for environmental and ecological issues.
· To promote good habits of physical fitness and personal hygiene.
· To reinforce healthy psychological, emotional, and social behaviors.
· To generate a community of cooperation, collaboration, and mutual support. |
Located on the Mississippi Gulf Coast in Historic Biloxi and serving a mobile and ethnically diverse student population, Biloxi Public Schools currently holds the highest accreditation rating awarded by the state, 5.0. A low pupil-teacher ratio coupled with excellent community support and quality instruction accounts for student test scores above the national average in all grades assessed by the state of Mississippi.
Biloxi High School, grades 9 - 12, a state-of-the-art facility houses 1,100 students with adequate room for anticipated enrollment growth. More than one hundred student course offerings are available in technology, fine arts, business, foreign languages, Advanced Placement (AP) and traditional college preparatory. Numerous sports are available to those students who thrive on competition from swimming to golf to football.
Biloxi Junior High School, grades 7 and 8, are located in the former Biloxi High School on Father Ryan Avenue. Michel 6th Grade will serve all of the district’s students in grade 6. Traditional sports opportunities are available to students in these grades.
The Center for New Opportunities (CNO), an alternative school, will be housed on the Fernwood campus.
Six elementary schools, grades K-5: Beauvoir, Gorneflo, Jeff Davis, Nichols, Popp's Ferry and North Bay.
Further information related to Biloxi Public Schools may be found at www.biloxischools.net or by telephone, 228.374.1810. Dr. Paul A. Tisdale, Superintendent
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