[1] It is now a part of the Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District, effective July 1, 2015.
This resulted in a situation where the population of the OCSD had a median income of around half that of the SSD,[3] and was over 90% black.
[6][7][8] The district served most of Maben and the town of Sturgis in the West Oktibbeha County Elementary (Pre-K-6) and High School (7-12) as well as several communities in the western parts of the county not in the Starkville City School District.
The East Oktibbeha County Elementary (K-6) and High School (7-12) served the communities in the eastern parts of Oktibbeha county not included in the Starkville City School District.
In the implementation of this plan, East Oktibbeha Elementary was closed because its location would have resulted in a school that was over 90% black.