Consolidations

[greenandgoldhawk]

Im just trying to keep track of all the consolidations/mergers/closures in recent past (10-15 years) and currently now.

 

Currently in Waiting

North Tippah (Walnut & Falkner)

Greenwood-Leflore County (Greenwood, Leflore County, & Amanda Elzy)

Simpson County (Mendenhall & Magee)

 

Past in recent years

Jeff Davis County (Prentiss & Bassfield)

Choctaw County (Ackerman & Weir)

Northside (Shelby-Broadstreet & Mound Bayou-JFK)

Cleveland Central (Cleveland & Eastside)

Holmes County Central (JJ McClain, S.V. Marshall, Durant, William-Sullivan)

 

Closures

Ray Brooks (Merged into West Bolivar and Shaw)

East Oktibbeha (Merged into Starkville)

West Oktibbeha (Merged into Starkville)

Montgomery County (Merged into Winona)

Coldwater ( Merged into Strayhorn, Independence and Senatobia)

Dexter (Merged into Tylertown)

Coahoma Agricultural (Changed into Coahoma Collegiate  and Merged into Coahoma County and Clarksdale)

Hinds AHS (Merged into Raymond and Terry)

Wingfield (Merged with other JPS schools)

 

 

Edited January 21, 2025 by greenandgoldhawk

[Rebel Bert]

Holes County Schools into Holmes County Central

Yazoo County

Flora and Ridgeland into Madison Central and then Ridgeland rebuilt

Hinds AHS into Raymond and Terry

Byram into Terry

Simpson County is being held up by the courts to halt the consolidation with attempt build new Middle Schools at Magee, Mendenhall, and new High School at Pinola(Simpson Central K-8) currently. 

[NoWammies]

Man as a delta guy how you going to leave off Cleveland and East Side consolidating into Cleveland Central haha? Also didn’t Coahoma AHS close down?

[greenandgoldhawk]

2 hours ago, NoWammies said:

Man as a delta guy how you going to leave off Cleveland and East Side consolidating into Cleveland Central haha? Also didn’t Coahoma AHS close down?

You right. 

[Sharper]

I'm predicting that the new Leflore Co.-Greenwood-Elzy high school will be called LeFlore Central or something like that.

[ccbulldog]

eventually Collins/Mount Olive/Seminary all might be merged into Covington Co. Seminary would probably fight it. Mount Olive is really got too small to continue as a school.

Edited November 13, 2024 by ccbulldog

[s1nglewing]

1 minute ago, ccbulldog said:

eventually Collins/Mount Olive/Seminary all might be merged into Covington Co. Seminary would probably fight it.

No doubt.

[Rebel Bert]

17 minutes ago, ccbulldog said:

eventually Collins/Mount Olive/Seminary all might be merged into Covington Co. Seminary would probably fight it. Mount Olive is really got too small to continue as a school.

Mt Olive has already fought and won on a 3-2 vote to remain open. If anything Collins will absorb Mt Olive. 2 schools in the county will remain.

[Rebel Bert]

2 hours ago, Sharper said:

I'm predicting that the new Leflore Co.-Greenwood-Elzy high school will be called LeFlore Central or something like that.

Greenwood Leflore for historical purposes as an Indian name. Leflore County Central.

[Rebel Bert]

Coahoma AGS is still open under a new name and no sports. Coahoma College and Career. I think they separated college courses to a separate campus.

[MSSportsGuy]

Continuing school consolidations are another reason why I've been so insistent on not needing 7 classes. More will happen and more would likely have already happened if there were fewer school districts in our state. Districts need to be consolidated more than schools to save on administrative costs and may pop up again in the near future. The county where I grew up in Northeast MS has two districts for no reaon beyond "that's the way it's always been". People are quick to say school and district consolidations should happen but when it's their school system being impacted they tend to fight it. 

 

I never predict who will consolidate and I've repeatedly said bigger doesn't mean better but there are many communities where it would make sense on paper but that doesn't mean it will happen. 

[Rebel Bert]

29 minutes ago, MSSportsGuy said:

Continuing school consolidations are another reason why I've been so insistent on not needing 7 classes. More will happen and more would likely have already happened if there were fewer school districts in our state. Districts need to be consolidated more than schools to save on administrative costs and may pop up again in the near future. The county where I grew up in Northeast MS has two districts for no reaon beyond "that's the way it's always been". People are quick to say school and district consolidations should happen but when it's their school system being impacted they tend to fight it. 

 

I never predict who will consolidate and I've repeatedly said bigger doesn't mean better but there are many communities where it would make sense on paper but that doesn't mean it will happen. 

I think some counties need to be consolidated to save on cost. 

[pancho]

2 hours ago, MSSportsGuy said:

Continuing school consolidations are another reason why I've been so insistent on not needing 7 classes. More will happen and more would likely have already happened if there were fewer school districts in our state. Districts need to be consolidated more than schools to save on administrative costs and may pop up again in the near future. The county where I grew up in Northeast MS has two districts for no reaon beyond "that's the way it's always been". People are quick to say school and district consolidations should happen but when it's their school system being impacted they tend to fight it. 

 

I never predict who will consolidate and I've repeatedly said bigger doesn't mean better but there are many communities where it would make sense on paper but that doesn't mean it will happen. 

Yes but can you see Pine Grove and Ripley coming together in that fashion? blue Mountain should be combined with Ripley yesterday .They saw the same thing in Union county when potential consolidation and even football was proposed. Ingomar was and is staunchly opposed to anything to hurts their brand. 

[Hash_Marks]

The Leake County schools (Carthage, Edinburg, South Leake, Thomastown) became Leake Central and Leake County. 

[Chunky6617]

12 hours ago, ccbulldog said:

eventually Collins/Mount Olive/Seminary all might be merged into Covington Co. Seminary would probably fight it. Mount Olive is really got too small to continue as a school.

Probably just would merge Collins and mount olive initially. That needs to happen.

[MSSportsGuy]

8 hours ago, Rebel Bert said:

I think some counties need to be consolidated to save on cost. 

No doubt, could cut those and the legislature almost in half and not see much of a difference in services. 

 

6 hours ago, pancho said:

Yes but can you see Pine Grove and Ripley coming together in that fashion? blue Mountain should be combined with Ripley yesterday .They saw the same thing in Union county when potential consolidation and even football was proposed. Ingomar was and is staunchly opposed to anything to hurts their brand. 

Like I said I'm a native of NE Miss and the districts probably need to be consolidated as much as schools but it would start a domino effect.

 

Tippah, Union, Alcorn, Prentiss, Pontotoc all have two different districts. Why? "It's the way it's always been". I won't name names about who I think should be closed but if each of those counties just had one district, you'd have at least a couple of candidates since the "city" and "county" would disappear in some of them. 

 

Ingomar and Pine Grove are schools with excellent basketball traditions and (as safely as I can put it) demographics that favor what the parents want. I didn't say who I think should be for sure but I have my thoughts. As far as BM and Ripley, I was told by a Tippah relative that the board fears pushback from the justice department if they close a minority serving school (BM) while keeping a larger yet still small school with no minority students (PG) open. I won't swear that's legit but given what Tate County went through trying to get Coldwater closed, I wouldn't be surprised. 

[Mississippi Queen]

9 hours ago, MSSportsGuy said:

Continuing school consolidations are another reason why I've been so insistent on not needing 7 classes. More will happen and more would likely have already happened if there were fewer school districts in our state. Districts need to be consolidated more than schools to save on administrative costs and may pop up again in the near future. The county where I grew up in Northeast MS has two districts for no reaon beyond "that's the way it's always been". People are quick to say school and district consolidations should happen but when it's their school system being impacted they tend to fight it. 

 

I never predict who will consolidate and I've repeatedly said bigger doesn't mean better but there are many communities where it would make sense on paper but that doesn't mean it will happen. 

Agree. And fighting it are the admin higher-ups. They're the ones who'll lose their jobs in consolidation because districts won't need 2 superintendents, 2 sets of administrative leadership, etc. 

The teachers (by & large) won't lost jobs because you'll still have the same number of students who need instruction - they'll just be at a different location. So they're really not impacted financially. If anything, teachers could make MORE because less of the funding has to go to admin level salaries!

[Gump4Heisman]

Lincoln County Schools really need to consolidate

[s1nglewing]

13 minutes ago, Gump4Heisman said:

Lincoln County Schools really need to consolidate

Unlikely. They're already under one administration. 

[Merlin]

Guy that used to work with me in Hattiesburg was from the delta originally.  I think he said Cleveland. And we were talking around the time they consolidated. I remember him saying that they had 2 or 3 school districts each with 6 or more employees making over 100k each in the district offices and the state was making them consolidate and there was all kinds of people big time mad. He said several family’s had generations in administration and they would lose those high paying jobs he it drops to1district.
 

I also have people over in the mt olive area and any mention of them merging with Collins qthey will want to fight whoever said it like drunk red necks around a campfire insulting each others sisters. 

Edited November 14, 2024 by Merlin

[Chunky6617]

1 hour ago, Gump4Heisman said:

Lincoln County Schools really need to consolidate

I agree. I mean, you have 4 small schools all 20 minutes or less from each other. Loyd Star, West Lincoln, Bogue Chitto, and Enterprise Lincoln. 

[Chunky6617]

1 hour ago, Merlin said:

Guy that used to work with me in Hattiesburg was from the delta originally.  I think he said Cleveland. And we were talking around the time they consolidated. I remember him saying that they had 2 or 3 school districts each with 6 or more employees making over 100k each and the state was giving them to consolidate and there was all kinds of people big time mad. He said several family’s had generations in administration and they would lose it. 
 

I also have people over in the mtbolive stea and any mention of them merging with Holliday they will want to fight whoever said it like drunk red necks around a campfire insulting each others sisters. 

Mount Olive and collins will consolidate soon. Mount Olive is barely keeping the doors open right now. They will be playing 8 man football before long. 

[s1nglewing]

7 minutes ago, Chunky6617 said:

I agree. I mean, you have 4 small schools all 20 minutes or less from each other. Loyd Star, West Lincoln, Bogue Chitto, and Enterprise Lincoln. 

Similar to Smith County?

[maroontide06]

2 hours ago, s1nglewing said:

Similar to Smith County?

Consolidating watermelons.  Interesting idea. 

[Rebel Bert]

3 hours ago, maroontide06 said:

Consolidating watermelons.  Interesting idea. 

Maybe high schools  only. There will be a fight first in the southern part of Smith County.