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This is a list of school districts in Mississippi. School districts which are independent governments as per the U.S. Census Bureau include county-wide school districts, consolidated school districts, municipal separate school districts, special municipal separate school districts, and junior colleges.
In May 2016 the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi ordered the school district to consolidate the schools in order to achieve racial integration. [7] Cleveland High School will house all high school students, while the former East Side High School will house all middle school students. [8] In 2017 the consolidations ...
Before mandatory busing in 1976, minority enrollment in Cleveland Public Schools was 58%; by 1994 it was 71%. By 1996, Cleveland Public Schools' total enrollment was half of what it was pre-mandatory busing. [22] In 1991, Ohio had a new proficiency test for 9th grade students, which the majority of Cleveland Public Schools students did not pass ...
Three Mississippi teachers received the Milken Educator Award in early January 2024. The coveted award grants the winners a $25,000 cash prize.
Abigail Myers, a social studies teacher at Simpson Central School in Pinola, has been nominated for the 2024 Patricia Behring Teacher of the Year Award sponsored by the nonprofit National History Day.
In Mississippi, there are 152 school districts consisting of 3 agricultural high schools, 68 county unit districts, and 81 separate district schools. There are 1,089 elementary and secondary schools with 491,962 students and 33,358 teachers, compared to the national averages of 1,999 schools, 965,991 students, and 63,179 teachers.
Although unusual in the West, school corporal punishment is common in Mississippi, with 31,236 public school students [2] paddled at least one time. [3] A greater percentage of students were paddled in Mississippi than in any other state, according to government data for the 2011–2012 school year.
There were a total of 917 students enrolled in the Union Public School District during the 2006–2007 school year. The gender makeup of the district was 50% female and 50% male. The racial makeup of the district was 28.03% African American, 70.82% White, 0.65% Hispanic, 0.22% Asian, and 0.22% Native American.