[4] Previously it was, as of 2000, one of three independently functioning agricultural high schools in the state of Mississippi.

[5] The school has its own facilities, instructional and administrative personnel, and student programs.

The school was desegregated in 1965, although the student body has remained mostly and in recent years, exclusively African American.

Governor of Mississippi Phil Bryant signed into law Senate Bill 2501, which required this change in the school, in May 2016.

The same board of trustees governs both the high school and community college.