The Durant Public School District was a public

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based in

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. 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

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. the superintendent was Edwin Robinson. It operated a single school, Durant Public School, with elementary and secondary divisions.

History

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, chairperson of the

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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

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. In 2016

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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 Holmes County Central High School is a senior high school in unincorporated Holmes County, Mississippi, United States, about south of Lexington.

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.

Previous school years

Accountability statistics

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