There were 2,934 students enrolled in Marion County schools in the 2024-25 school year, 10.7% fewer than the previous year, according to the Mississippi Department of Education.
Of all the students enrolled in the 2024-25 school year, 51.3% were boys, 48.7% were girls.
Data also showed that white students made up 50% of the student body, the largest percentage in Marion County schools, followed by Black students at 43.5%, multiracial students at 2.3%, and Hispanic students at 0.8%.
Columbia High School had the highest enrollment among Marion County’s eight schools in the 2024-25 school year, welcoming 484 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia Elementary School | 369 | 378 | 2.4% |
| Columbia High School | 471 | 484 | 2.8% |
| Columbia Primary School | 433 | 448 | 3.5% |
| East Marion Elementary School | 359 | 298 | -17% |
| East Marion High School | 345 | 215 | -37.7% |
| Jefferson Middle School | 357 | 329 | -7.8% |
| West Marion High School | 587 | 347 | -40.9% |
| West Marion Primary School | 365 | 435 | 19.2% |
Information in this article was obtained from the Mississippi Department of Education. The source data can be found here.