There were 4,390 students enrolled in Monroe County schools in the 2024-25 school year, 3.4% 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 white students made up 58.5% of the student body, the largest percentage in Monroe County schools, followed by Black students at 33%, multiracial students at 5.3%, and Hispanic students at 0.4%.
Hatley High School had the highest enrollment among Monroe County’s 10 schools in the 2024-25 school year, welcoming 905 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aberdeen Elementary School | 363 | 346 | -4.7% |
| Aberdeen High School | 334 | 312 | -6.6% |
| Amory High School | 439 | 444 | 1.1% |
| Amory Middle School | 342 | 348 | 1.8% |
| Belle Shivers Middle School | 268 | 266 | -0.7% |
| East Amory School | 346 | 315 | -9% |
| Hamilton High School | 581 | 558 | -4% |
| Hatley High School | 951 | 905 | -4.8% |
| Smithville High School | 567 | 540 | -4.8% |
| West Amory School | 355 | 356 | 0.3% |
Information in this article was obtained from the Mississippi Department of Education. The source data can be found here.
