Jackson Public Schools
Mississippi's Four-Year Enrollment Slowdown Ended With a 10,725-Student Drop
Mississippi's public school enrollment decline had been slowing. Annual losses averaged 1,842 students across the four school years from 2021-22 through 2024-25, far below the disruption that opened t...
No Recovery Year: 13 Mississippi Districts in Decade-Long Freefall
Buried in the Mississippi Department of Education's enrollment files: 13 school districts have lost students in every single year for a decade. Not most years. Not a general downward trend with a few ...
Mississippi's Largest Non-COVID Enrollment Loss in Its Recent Record
Correction: This article previously presented funding changes, population trends, and homeschooling as explanations for the enrollment decline. Those explanations and outside numerical comparisons hav...
9 of Mississippi's 10 Highest-Absence Schools Had 'High' in Their Names
The highest reported chronic-absence rates in Mississippi's 2025 school file were concentrated among schools with “High” in their names.
DeSoto County Reported Mississippi's Largest District Chronic-Absence Count
DeSoto County reported Mississippi's largest district-level chronic-absence count in 2025.
Mississippi's Kindergarten Classes Shrank 14%. High Schools Haven't Felt It Yet.
> Correction (Aug. 20, 2026): This article previously used an older Mississippi enrollment snapshot. The statewide grade counts, K-12 composition shares, high-school totals, retention averages, kinder...
87 Mississippi Districts Hit Record-Low Enrollment
Of Mississippi's 152 school districts, 87 enrolled fewer students in 2025-26 than in any previous year on record. That is 57.2% of all districts, the highest share since COVID emptied classrooms in 20...
Only 12 of 143 Districts Have Recovered from COVID
Five years after the pandemic emptied 23,390 seats from Mississippi's public schools in a single year, the state has not recovered a single one of them. It has lost 18,035 more.
White Students Fall Below 41% in Mississippi
For the first time in Mississippi Department of Education records, white students make up less than 41% of public school enrollment. The 2025-26 count puts them at 171,982, or 40.5% of the total, down...
Jackson Lost 11,000 Students in a Decade
In 2015-16, Jackson Public Schools enrolled 28,019 students, making it the second-largest district in Mississippi. A decade later, that number is 16,968. The district has lost 11,051 students, a 39.4%...