2,410 students enrolled in Leake County schools in 2024-25 school year

There were 2,410 students enrolled in Leake County schools in the 2024-25 school year, 2.2% fewer than the previous year, according to the Mississippi Department of Education.

Of all the students enrolled in the 2024-25 school year, 51.1% were boys, 48.9% were girls.

Data also showed that Black students made up 59.6% of the student body, the largest percentage in Leake County schools, followed by Hispanic students at 20%, white students at 15.5%, and multiracial students at 2.4%.

Leake Central Elementary School had the highest enrollment among Leake County’s five schools in the 2024-25 school year, welcoming 850 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.