Bolivar County: 2.2% less students were enrolled in 2024-25 school year

There were 4,017 students enrolled in Bolivar County schools in the 2024-25 school year, 2.2% fewer than the previous year, according to the Mississippi Department of Education.

Of all the students enrolled in the 2024-25 school year, 50.1% were girls, 49.9% were boys.

Data also showed that Black students made up 75.4% of the student body, the largest percentage in Bolivar County schools, followed by white students at 12.9%, multiracial students at 6.3%, Hispanic students at 2.8%, and Asian students at 0.2%.

Cleveland Central High School had the highest enrollment among Bolivar County’s 13 schools in the 2024-25 school year, welcoming 799 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.

Information in this article was obtained from the Mississippi Department of Education. The source data can be found here.