Hinds County AHS was one of three independently functioning agricultural high schools in the state of Mississippi.
[2] In 2012 the Mississippi Board of Education published a report recommending the closure of Hinds AHS.
Augenblick, Palaich and Associates, the report's author, stated that enrollment was declining at Hinds, that it had among the lowest levels of academic performance, and that it no longer had a focus on agriculture.
[3] On July 1, 2015, its property was transferred to the Hinds County School District.
[4] In 2014 the boys' track team won the third Class 1A championship of the MHSAA; this occurred just prior to the disestablishment of the school.