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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...
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.