The Benoit School District (BSD) was a public

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serving, in

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): Benoit,

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, and areas around those two settlements. The sole school of the district was the

Ray Brooks School Ray Brooks School was a K-12 school in unincorporated Bolivar County, Mississippi, near Benoit. In September 2015 it had 214 students. Its namesake was its first principal, Ray Brooks; it was originally known as the Nugent Center School,

(Grades PK-12), in

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Bolivar County. The district headquarters was previously in a building in Benoit. Later it was in Ray Brooks itself. On July 1, 2014, the district consolidated into the

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. Ray Brooks itself continued to operate until its 2020 closure.

History

Beginning in 1986 district students at the high school level did not attend Ray Brooks (previously Nugent Center School, a.k.a. Benoit High School), but instead

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of the West Bolivar School District, in Rosedale. However high school classes at Ray Brooks resumed in 2000.Wilson hopes to break out the shoes'
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member of the

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from Mound Bayou, stated that the costs of transporting children to West Bolivar from Benoit were too high. In 2012 the

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passed a bill that required five school districts in Bolivar County to consolidate into two larger ones. On July 1, 2014, the Benoit district consolidated into the

. West Bolivar closed Ray Brooks in 2020.

Demographics

The school district had 287 students as of 2012. As of that year, of the 152 school districts in the State of Mississippi, Benoit was the smallest K-12 district (meaning the smallest which had all thirteen grade levels) and one of the 20 smallest school districts overall in the state.Amy, Jeff.
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Accountability statistics

As of 2012, the district was, on a state seven step accountability rating, given the third lowest, "low performing," due to test scores. As of the same year the school had a 92% graduation rate, which is much higher than the Mississippi state average.

School uniforms

Students were required to wear

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.Student Hansbook 2011-2012
" Benoit School District. 57. Retrieved on March 25, 2012.

References

External links

* {{Defunct school districts in Mississippi Education in Bolivar County, Mississippi Former school districts in Mississippi 2014 disestablishments in Mississippi School districts disestablished in 2014