Holmes County Consolidated School District

[3] Effective July 1, 2018 the Holmes County and Durant school districts consolidated into the Holmes County Consolidated School District.

[4] As of 2016 the district had a per student spending rate, adjusted for regional cost differentiation, of $8,368, $3,500 under the U.S. average.

The racial makeup of the district was 99.86% African American, 0.06% White, and 0.09% Asian.

[11] 93.2% of the district's students were eligible to receive free lunch.

Desegregation occurred in 1969, and that year the white student population decreased to 228.