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Of the 3,748 students in Yazoo County schools, 50.4% were men and 49.6% were women, according to the Mississippi Department of Education.

The previous year, the student body across Yazoo County schools was 49.6% men and 50.4% women.

McCoy Elementary School in Yazoo City had the highest number of boy and girl students.

There are nine schools within 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	Men	Women
Bentonia Gibbs School	214	195
Bettie E. Woolfolk Middle School	245	246
Claudine F. Brown Elementary School	117	137
Linwood Elementary School	80	72
McCoy Elementary School	340	374
Webster Street Elementary School	169	138
Yazoo City High School	317	295
Yazoo County High School	247	223
Yazoo County Middle School	160	179

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