The West Tallahatchie School District (WTSD) is a public school district with its headquarters in the Charles M. George Facility for Educational Services in unincorporated Tallahatchie County, Mississippi (USA), adjacent to Sumner.
[1] In addition to Sumner, the district also serves the communities of Tutwiler, Webb, and Glendora.
The Charles M. George Facility for Educational Services, the headquarters of WTSD, was dedicated on July 23, 1995.
[33] As per the Mississippi Critical Teacher Shortage Act of 1998, a duplex was built for $200,000 next to West Tallahatchie High School.
In 2015 Monique Harrison-Henderson of The Hechinger Report stated "In the end, instead of being an exciting recruitment tool, the duplex has been filled in recent years by people with no direct ties to the school system.