Lowndes County Education: 8,589 students were enrolled in 2024-25 school year

There were 8,589 students enrolled in Lowndes County schools in the 2024-25 school year, 0.9% 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 boys, 49.2% were girls.

Data also showed that Black students made up 56.4% of the student body, the largest percentage in Lowndes County schools, followed by white students at 36.1%, Hispanic students at 2.5%, multiracial students at 2%, and Asian students at 0.6%.

New Hope Elementary School had the highest enrollment among Lowndes County’s 16 schools in the 2024-25 school year, welcoming 1,191 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.