The district serves all of Sharkey County, including the towns of Rolling Fork, Anguilla, and Cary, as well as the unincorporated areas of Delta City, Nitta Yuma, and Panther Burn.
The racial makeup of the district was 96.01% African American, 3.31% White, and 0.68% Hispanic.
[6] The district, which is in one of the poorest regions in the United States, received $1.3 million in federal money in 2008 for programs to improve student achievement.
[8] Corporal punishment is administered unless parents request, by filling out a form, that it not be used on their student.
There is a maximum of five licks per paddling and it must be applied to "the fleshy part of the buttocks".