There were 1,804 students enrolled in Adams County schools in the 2024-25 school year, 0.6% more than the previous year, according to the Mississippi Department of Education.
Of all the students enrolled in the 2024-25 school year, 52.3% were girls, 47.7% were boys.
Data also showed that Black students made up 87.4% of the student body, the largest percentage in Adams County schools, followed by white students at 7.5% and multiracial students at 2.6%.
McLaurin Elementary School had the highest enrollment among Adams County’s four schools in the 2024-25 school year, welcoming 642 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| McLaurin Elementary School | 556 | 642 | 15.5% |
| Natchez Early College at Copiah-Lincoln | 187 | 176 | -5.9% |
| Natchez High School | 634 | 608 | -4.1% |
| Susie B. West Elementary School | 417 | 378 | -9.4% |
Information in this article was obtained from the Mississippi Department of Education. The source data can be found here.
