[1] The school district's attendance boundary included Drew, Rome, and the employee residences of the Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman), located in an unincorporated area.
[2] In 1967 civil rights activist Mae Bertha Carter and Marian Wright Edelman, a lawyer who worked for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc., sued the Drew School District to challenge the Mississippi "freedom of choice" law.
[11] In May 2012 Governor of Mississippi Phil Bryant signed the bill into law, requiring all three districts to consolidate.
John Thigpen, the president of the school board, stated that the district operated as if it had 1,200 students when in fact it had 650.
[7] The Drew School district was in northern Sunflower County, in the central Mississippi Delta region and along U.S. Highway 49 West.
[15] The school district's attendance boundary included Drew, Rome, and the employee residences of the Mississippi State Penitentiary (MSP, Parchman), located in an unincorporated area.
Some residents worked in factories and other businesses located in Clarksdale, Cleveland, Indianola, and Ruleville.
[15] As of the same year within the district boundaries were two banks, about 20 churches, a National Guard armory, a library, and three parks.