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Brazil is an unincorporated community in
Tallahatchie County, Mississippi Tallahatchie County is a county in the U.S. state of Mississippi. At the 2020 census, the population was 12,715. Its county seats are Charleston and Sumner. Tallahatchie County is located in the Mississippi Delta region, divided by the Tallah ...
. Brazil is on Mississippi Highway 321 approximately north of Webb and south of
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. The community is also known as Lay and Stover.
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Education

Brazil is in the
West Tallahatchie School District The West Tallahatchie School District (WTSD) is a public school district with its headquarters in the Charles M. George Facility for Educational Services in unincorporated Tallahatchie County, Mississippi (USA), adjacent to Sumner. In addition to ...
. R. H. Bearden School and
West Tallahatchie High School West Tallahatchie High School (WTHS) is a public high school in unincorporated Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, near Webb. A part of the West Tallahatchie School District, its nickname is "West Tally". In addition to Webb, the district also ser ...
are the local schools. It was previously a part of the
Brazil Consolidated School District Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area an ...
. Brazil formerly had its own school, with the final building built for $50,000 in 1936.
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In the 1940s, the district made plans to build an expansion. The previous Brazil school was destroyed by a fire. Due to underenrollment, as the school had 40 students registered in 1965, it was closed that year. and the building put up for sale by the school district. Coahoma Community College
is the designated community college.Student Residency

Archive
. Coahoma Community College. Retrieved on July 8, 2017. "Out-of-District Resident: A student who does not live within Bolivar, Coahoma, Quitman, Tallahatchie, and Tunica Counties but does live in some other county in Mississippi."


References

Unincorporated communities in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi Unincorporated communities in Mississippi {{TallahatchieCountyMS-geo-stub