There were 2,305 students enrolled in Holmes County schools in the 2024-25 school year, 3.4% fewer than the previous year, according to the Mississippi Department of Education.
Of all the students enrolled in the 2024-25 school year, 51.6% were boys, 48.4% were girls.
Data also showed that Black students made up 89% of the student body, the largest percentage in Holmes County schools.
Holmes County Central High School had the highest enrollment among Holmes County’s seven schools in the 2024-25 school year, welcoming 716 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Durant Elementary School | 216 | 242 | 12% |
| Goodman Pickens Elementary School | 205 | 192 | -6.3% |
| Holmes County Central High School | 788 | 716 | -9.1% |
| S.V. Marshall Elementary School | 208 | 214 | 2.9% |
| S.V. Marshall Middle School | 333 | 321 | -3.6% |
| William Dean Jr. Elementary School | 417 | 427 | 2.4% |
| Williams-Sullivan Middle School | 219 | 193 | -11.9% |
Information in this article was obtained from the Mississippi Department of Education. The source data can be found here.
