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Mississippi's Kindergarten Classes Shrank 15%. High Schools Haven't Felt It Yet.
Every grade in Mississippi lost students over the last decade. But the losses are not evenly distributed. Grades 1 through 3 each lost between 18% and 20% of their enrollment since 2015-16. Twelfth gr...
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.