There were 2,477 students enrolled in Sunflower County schools in the 2024-25 school year, 1.9% fewer than the previous year, according to the Mississippi Department of Education.
Of all the students enrolled in the 2024-25 school year, 50.4% were girls, 49.6% were boys.
Data also showed that Black students made up 93.6% of the student body, the largest percentage in Sunflower County schools, followed by multiracial students at 1.4% and Hispanic students at 0.8%.
Gentry High School had the highest enrollment among Sunflower County’s 10 schools in the 2024-25 school year, welcoming 465 students.
For the 2025-26 academic year, Mississippi’s public schools enrolled 424,534 students statewide. Black or African American students represented the largest racial group at 45.09%, followed by white students at 40.56%.
Mississippi had 3,815 unfilled K-12 teaching positions in public schools, an increase of 851 from the 2024-25 school year, according to a recent report from the Mississippi Department of Education. That is also 779 higher than in the 2021-22 school year, indicating that teacher vacancies continue to rise statewide.
| School name | Total enrollment in 2023-24 | Total enrollment in 2024-25 | % change |
|---|---|---|---|
| A.W. James Elementary School | 203 | 219 | 7.9% |
| Carver Elementary School | 257 | 250 | -2.7% |
| Drew Hunter Middle School | 79 | 82 | 3.8% |
| Gentry High School | 505 | 465 | -7.9% |
| Lockard Elementary School | 382 | 394 | 3.1% |
| Moorhead Central School | 220 | 245 | 11.4% |
| Robert L. Merritt Junior High School | 376 | 341 | -9.3% |
| Rosser Early Learning Center | 91 | 79 | -13.2% |
| Ruleville Central Elementary School | 270 | 271 | 0.4% |
| Ruleville Middle School | 143 | 131 | -8.4% |
Information in this article was obtained from the Mississippi Department of Education. The source data can be found here.
