Jefferson Davis County: 3.2% less students were enrolled in 2024-25 school year

There were 956 students enrolled in Jefferson Davis County schools in the 2024-25 school year, 3.2% fewer than the previous year, according to the Mississippi Department of Education.

Of all the students enrolled in the 2024-25 school year, 50.8% were girls, 49.2% were boys.

Data also showed that Black students made up 71.1% of the student body, the largest percentage in Jefferson Davis County schools, followed by multiracial students at 15.7% and white students at 9.2%.

Jefferson Davis County (JDC) High School had the highest enrollment among Jefferson Davis County’s three schools in the 2024-25 school year, welcoming 369 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.

Information in this article was obtained from the Mississippi Department of Education. The source data can be found here.