 For the 1965–1966 school year, 67% of the Tunica Academy's tuition revenue came from grants provided by the state of Mississippi.In 1969, a federal court ruled that, since, in the court's opinion, Tunica Academy would refuse to admit qualified black students, the tuition grant program violated the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment.In 1969, the Clarion-Ledger reported that Tunica Academy enrolled about 225 students, or one-third of the white students in Tunica County.