How many students were enrolled in Leflore County schools for 2024-25 school year?

There were 3,940 students enrolled in Leflore County schools in the 2024-25 school year, 3.3% fewer than the previous year, according to the Mississippi Department of Education.

Of all the students enrolled in the 2024-25 school year, 52.1% were girls, 47.9% were boys.

Data also showed that Black students made up 82.3% of the student body, the largest percentage in Leflore County schools, followed by multiracial students at 9.5%, Hispanic students at 3.9%, and white students at 1.2%.

Greenwood High School had the highest enrollment among Leflore County’s 13 schools in the 2024-25 school year, welcoming 634 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.