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Of the 3,455 students enrolled in Sunflower County schools in 2019-2020, 95.6% were Black or African American, according to the Mississippi Department of Education. This was the most represented ethnicity among Sunflower County students.

This is a 0.2% increase over the previous school year.

Gentry High School had the highest enrollment of Black or African American students in the 2019-2020 school year.

A snapshot of Sunflower County schools showed 95.6% students were Black or African American, 1% were White and 0.4% were Hispanic or Latino.

There are 12 schools in Sunflower County.

Mississippi has continually struggled with public education. The most recent Report Card on American Education, from a right-leaning think tank, gave the state a C-. This is consistent with ratings stretching back nearly one decade.

The nonpartisan Education Week also ranked Mississippi schools as C- in their most recent analysis.

School	Asian Enrollment %	Black or African American %	Hispanic of Latino %	Two or More Races %	White %
A.W. James Elementary School	-	91.3	5.7	-	-
Carver Elementary School	-	96	-	-	-
Drew Hunter Middle School	-	88	-	-	-
East Sunflower School	-	78.4	-	-	13.7
Gentry High School	-	98.9	-	-	-
Inverness School	-	95.2	-	-	-
Lockard Elementary School	-	94.8	-	-	3.6
Moorhead Central School	-	100	-	-	-
Robert L. Merritt Junior High School	-	96.8	-	-	-
Ruleville Central Elementary School	-	98.3	-	-	-
Ruleville Middle School	-	97.4	-	-	-
Ruleville Central High School	-	97	-	-	-

Some information provided by the Mississippi Department of Education may be incomplete.