How many students were enrolled in Attala County schools for 2024-25 school year?

There were 2,929 students enrolled in Attala County schools in the 2024-25 school year, 1.1% 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 52.2% of the student body, the largest percentage in Attala County schools, followed by white students at 28.4%, multiracial students at 12.1%, and Hispanic students at 1.8%.

Kosciusko Senior High School had the highest enrollment among Attala County’s nine schools in the 2024-25 school year, welcoming 580 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.

Information in this article was obtained from the Mississippi Department of Education. The source data can be found here.