There were 3,045 students enrolled in Yazoo County schools in the 2024-25 school year, 2.3% fewer than the previous year, according to the Mississippi Department of Education.
Of all the students enrolled in the 2024-25 school year, 50.2% were boys, 49.8% were girls.
Data also showed that Black students made up 76.9% of the student body, the largest percentage in Yazoo County schools, followed by white students at 14.5% and multiracial students at 5.6%.
McCoy Elementary School had the highest enrollment among Yazoo County’s seven schools in the 2024-25 school year, welcoming 846 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.
| School name | Total enrollment in 2023-24 | Total enrollment in 2024-25 | % change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bentonia Gibbs School | 375 | 379 | 1.1% |
| Bettie E. Woolfolk Middle School | 469 | 449 | -4.3% |
| Linwood Elementary School | 162 | 181 | 11.7% |
| McCoy Elementary School | 882 | 846 | -4.1% |
| Yazoo City High School | 537 | 532 | -0.9% |
| Yazoo County High School | 417 | 400 | -4.1% |
| Yazoo County Middle School | 275 | 258 | -6.2% |
Information in this article was obtained from the Mississippi Department of Education. The source data can be found here.
