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Of the 6,066 students enrolled in Yazoo County schools in 2021-2022, 42.3% were White, according to the Mississippi Department of Education. This was the most represented ethnicity among Yazoo County students.

This is a 33.8% increase over the previous school year.

Bentonia Gibbs School had the highest enrollment of White students in the 2021-2022 school year.

A snapshot of Yazoo County schools showed 42.3% students were White.

There are nine schools in Yazoo 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 %
Bentonia Gibbs School	-	-	-	-	54.3
Bettie E. Woolfolk Middle School	-	-	-	-	-
Claudine F. Brown Elementary School	0	-	-	-	-
Linwood Elementary School	0	-	-	-	-
McCoy Elementary School	-	-	-	-	-
Webster Street Elementary School	-	-	-	-	-
Yazoo City High School	0	-	-	-	-
Yazoo County High School	-	-	-	-	35.7
Yazoo County Middle School	-	-	-	-	36.9

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