Durant Public School District

The Durant Public School District was a public school district based in Durant, Mississippi, United States. The district served students in the City of Durant.
Effective July 1, 2018 the Durant school district and the Holmes County School District consolidated into the Holmes County Consolidated School District.
the superintendent was Edwin Robinson. It operated a single school, Durant Public School, with elementary and secondary divisions.

WWW durant.k12.ms.us

History

Gray Tollison, chairperson of the Mississippi Senate Education Committee, wrote SB 2494, which required Durant school district to consolidate into Holmes County's district; Tollison argued that the Durant district had insufficient tax revenues to operate. The Durant school district opposed the consolidation. The bill was opposed by Democrats and supported by Republicans, passing the Mississippi House of Representatives. In 2016 Governor of Mississippi Phil Bryant signed the bill, finalizing the consolidation. As a result of the consolidation, a new school board for Holmes County was assembled by 2018.
In March 2018 the Durant school board voted to move high school students in Durant to Holmes County Central High School, an action opposed by area residents.

Academic performance

the graduation rate was 74.6%, and the Mississippi educational authorities gave the school a "D" ranking.

Demographics

2006-07 school year

There were a total of 582 students enrolled in the Durant Public School District during the 2006-2007 school year. The gender makeup of the district was 47% female and 53% male. The racial makeup of the district was 94.67% African American, 3.26% White, 1.37% Asian, and 0.69% Hispanic. 83.9% of the district's students were eligible to receive free lunch.