There were 1,601 students enrolled in Tunica County schools in the 2024-25 school year, 1.2% fewer than the previous year, according to the Mississippi Department of Education.
Of all the students enrolled in the 2024-25 school year, 50.1% were boys, 49.9% were girls.
Data also showed that Black students made up 87.3% of the student body, the largest percentage in Tunica County schools, followed by multiracial students at 6.5% and white students at 0.9%.
Rosa Fort High School had the highest enrollment among Tunica County’s five schools in the 2024-25 school year, welcoming 438 students.
For the 2025-26 academic year, Mississippi’s public schools enrolled 424,534 students statewide. Black or African American students represented the largest racial group at 45.09%, followed by white students at 40.56%.
Mississippi had 3,815 unfilled K-12 teaching positions in public schools, an increase of 851 from the 2024-25 school year, according to a recent report from the Mississippi Department of Education. That is also 779 higher than in the 2021-22 school year, indicating that teacher vacancies continue to rise statewide.
| School name | Total enrollment in 2023-24 | Total enrollment in 2024-25 | % change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dundee Elementary School | 122 | 138 | 13.1% |
| Robinsonville Elementary School | 361 | 380 | 5.3% |
| Rosa Fort High School | 455 | 438 | -3.7% |
| Tunica Elementary School | 321 | 311 | -3.1% |
| Tunica Middle School | 362 | 334 | -7.7% |
Information in this article was obtained from the Mississippi Department of Education. The source data can be found here.
