There were 5,070 students enrolled in Oktibbeha County schools in the 2024-25 school year, 3.9% more than the previous year, according to the Mississippi Department of Education.
Of all the students enrolled in the 2024-25 school year, 51.4% were boys, 48.6% were girls.
Data also showed that Black students made up 61.9% of the student body, the largest percentage in Oktibbeha County schools, followed by white students at 29.4%, Asian students at 3.7%, and Hispanic students at 2%.
Starkville High School had the highest enrollment among Oktibbeha County’s seven schools in the 2024-25 school year, welcoming 1,450 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Armstrong Junior High School | 371 | 378 | 1.9% |
| Henderson/Ward-Stewart Elementary School | 1,061 | 1,099 | 3.6% |
| MSU-SOCSD Partnership Middle School | 692 | 674 | -2.6% |
| Overstreet Elementary School | 271 | 340 | 25.5% |
| Starkville High School | 1,400 | 1,450 | 3.6% |
| Sudduth Elementary School | 891 | 938 | 5.3% |
| West Elementary School | 196 | 191 | -2.6% |
Information in this article was obtained from the Mississippi Department of Education. The source data can be found here.
