Two thousand fewer students are enrolled in Mississippi public education than last school year, according to data from the Mississippi Department of Education.
This change is smaller than the pre-pandemic annual change, where the state was losing about 5,500 students each year. However, between the 2019-20 and the 2020-21 school years, the state lost over 23,000 students, which education officials attributed to the pandemic. Enrollment numbers have not rebounded since that significant decline.
