Sunflower County Consolidated School District

[2] Prior to the merger with the Indianola School District, the SCSD served much of the county, including the cities of Ruleville and Moorhead, the towns of Sunflower, Inverness, and Doddsville as well as the Sunflower County portion of Shaw.

[5] The former Drew school district's attendance boundary included Drew, Rome, and the employee residences of the Mississippi State Penitentiary (MSP, Parchman), located in an unincorporated area.

During that year, a local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) asked the district to replace two school principals because the branch believed that they were not qualified educationally and mentally.

During that year a Mississippi state commission said that the district had violated accreditation standards in 2001 by not having those librarians.

[11] On April 19, 2010, the Mississippi Department of Education took control of the school district.

[14] In May 2012 Governor of Mississippi Phil Bryant signed the bill into law, requiring all three districts to consolidate.

The racial makeup of the district was 95.42% African American, 2.29% White, 2.06% Hispanic, and 0.22% Asian.