The Oktibbeha County School District was a public

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serving rural communities in

Oktibbeha County Oktibbeha County is a county in the east central portion of the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census the population was 51,788. The county seat is Starkville. The county's name is derived from a local Native American word meanin ...

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). The district administrative offices were in Starkville. It is now a part of the Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District, effective July 1, 2015.

History

In the 1960s and 70s, the school districts were reconfigured so that most of the areas surrounding Starkville were grouped into the

Starkville School District The Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District (SOCSD), formerly Starkville Public School District, is a public school district in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, headquartered in Starkville. The district serves all children within the cou ...

(SSD). This resulted in a situation where the population of the OCSD had a median income of around half that of the SSD, and was over 90% black. Prior to 1970, black students from Sturgis were bused to Maben. One day before the faculty of the schools were to be integrated in February of 1970, a black school in Maben was burned. The district served most of Maben and the town of Sturgis in the West Oktibbeha County Elementary (Pre-K-6) and

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(7-12) as well as several communities in the western parts of the county not in the Starkville City School District. The East Oktibbeha County Elementary (K-6) and

(7-12) served the communities in the eastern parts of Oktibbeha county not included in the Starkville City School District. OCSD was taken over the state twice due to academic failure and mismanagement, and the state proposed several times that it should be merged with the SSD. In 2013, the Mississippi Legislature passed a bill requiring that all Oktibbeha County schools be merged into the Starkville School District. In the implementation of this plan, East Oktibbeha Elementary was closed because its location would have resulted in a school that was over 90% black. The district was dissolved under Mississippi law on July 1, 2015.

Schools

East Oktibbeha County High School East Oktibbeha County High School (EOCHS) was a public secondary school located in unincorporated Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, near Crawford. It was a part of the Oktibbeha County School District, and was formed by the consolidation of two tradit ...

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West Oktibbeha County High School West Oktibbeha County High School (WOCHS) was a public secondary school located in Maben, Mississippi.Maben *East Oktibbeha County Elementary School - ''

'' *West Oktibbeha County Elementary School (formerly Sturgis Elementary School) - Sturgis Schools closed prior to the district's consolidation: * Wicks Elementary School * Alexander High School (for black children) *

Maben High School Maben High School was a public secondary school located in Maben, Mississippi. Until 1970, it was a school for black children only; white children were bused to the white Sturgis High School. It was a part of the Oktibbeha County School District, a ...

(for black children) * Moor High School (for black children) *

Sturgis High School Sturgis High School is located in Sturgis, Michigan and is part of the Sturgis Public Schools school district. Demographics The demographic breakdown of the 955 students enrolled in the 2018–19 school year was: * Male - 50.1% * Female - 49 ...

(for white children)

Demographics

2019-2020 school year

2006-07 school year

There were a total of 876 students enrolled in the Oktibbeha County School District during the 2006-2007 school year. The gender makeup of the district was 51% female and 49% male. The racial makeup of the district was 91.55% African American, 8.33% White, and 0.11% Asian. 82.7% of the district's students were eligible to receive free lunch.

Previous school years

Accountability statistics

References

External links

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2010 school district map for Oktibbeha County
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PROCLAMATION by GOVERNOR RONNIE MUSGROVE
(concerning the school district) {{Defunct school districts in Mississippi Education in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi Former school districts in Mississippi 2015 disestablishments in Mississippi School districts disestablished in 2015