There were 1,337 students enrolled in Tallahatchie County schools in the 2024-25 school year, 0.1% more than the previous year, according to the Mississippi Department of Education.
Of all the students enrolled in the 2024-25 school year, 50.9% were boys, 49.1% were girls.
Data also showed that Black students made up 89.2% of the student body, the largest percentage in Tallahatchie County schools, followed by multiracial students at 2.8% and white students at 2.8%.
Charleston Elementary School had the highest enrollment among Tallahatchie County’s five schools in the 2024-25 school year, welcoming 318 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charleston Elementary School | 322 | 318 | -1.2% |
| Charleston High School | 272 | 261 | -4% |
| Charleston Middle School | 206 | 208 | 1% |
| R.H. Bearden Elementary School | 244 | 252 | 3.3% |
| West Tallahatchie High School | 291 | 298 | 2.4% |
Information in this article was obtained from the Mississippi Department of Education. The source data can be found here.
