Of the 84 students enrolled in Ms School For The Arts in the 2023-24 school year, 52.4% were white, according to the Mississippi Department of Education.
This is an 11.6% decrease from the previous school year.
A snapshot of Ms School For The Arts’s student body showed that 52.4% of students were white and 36.9% were Black.
Ms School For The Arts roughly covers one school within Lincoln County and has a main office in Brookhaven.
Mississippi’s schools, with an enrollment of 436,523 in the 2023-24 academic year, are mostly divided between two ethnicities, with Black or African American students being the largest racial group at 46.86%, followed by white students at 42.14%.
Students in the state showed a significant improvement in the 2022-23 academic year, demonstrating sustained progress in their post-pandemic recovery. Overall, 87% of schools and 91% of districts achieved a grade of C or better, compared to 81% of schools and 87% of districts in the prior year.
Results from the 2022-23 Mississippi Academic Assessment Program (MAAP) showed students reaching an all-time high in all core subjects. Students better performed on the Math and English portion of the test, achieving grades around 5% better than in the previous year.
