There were 2,542 students enrolled in Stone County schools in the 2024-25 school year, 0.5% more than the previous year, according to the Mississippi Department of Education.
Of all the students enrolled in the 2024-25 school year, 51.8% were boys, 48.2% were girls.
Data also showed that white students made up 72.9% of the student body, the largest percentage in Stone County schools, followed by Black students at 19.1%, multiracial students at 5.2%, and Hispanic students at 1.7%.
Stone High School had the highest enrollment among Stone County’s four schools in the 2024-25 school year, welcoming 742 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Perkinston Elementary School | 536 | 503 | -6.2% |
| Stone Elementary School | 702 | 715 | 1.9% |
| Stone High School | 722 | 742 | 2.8% |
| Stone Middle School | 570 | 582 | 2.1% |
Information in this article was obtained from the Mississippi Department of Education. The source data can be found here.
