There were 1,070 students enrolled in Montgomery County schools in the 2024-25 school year, 1% 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 girls, 49.8% were boys.
Data also showed that Black students made up 63.8% of the student body, the largest percentage in Montgomery County schools, followed by white students at 27.1% and multiracial students at 6.9%.
Winona Elementary School had the highest enrollment among Montgomery County’s two schools in the 2024-25 school year, welcoming 567 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winona Elementary School | 571 | 567 | -0.7% |
| Winona Secondary School | 510 | 503 | -1.4% |
Information in this article was obtained from the Mississippi Department of Education. The source data can be found here.
