Way to early Reclassification Fall of 2026

[coastball]

2 hours ago, maroontide06 said:

There probably wasn't a financial incentive to do so.  It definitely makes sense, but it may not be making enough cents.

Well played sir

[maroontide06]

10 minutes ago, coastball said:

Well played sir

Just send all your old pennies to the MHSAA.  They'd appreciate it.  It'd be like a Coinstar where you got nothing back.

[Rebel Bert]

On 2/4/2026 at 4:09 PM, cstevens4 said:

 

 

Yes that is what I am hearing. I believe the plans are to move Leake Couty Jr. High and High School to Leake Central and leave Leake County Elementary alone.

Yes the plan was presented to MHSAA yesterday. As to whether they will play 4A in 2026 and then reclassify  to 5A in 2027 or play independent.  All of Leake County opponents will be looking for an opponent or have an open date in 2026. 

[Rebel Bert]

So Leake Central will be 5A and most likely play in Region 2. Thus either Provine or Vicksburg to Region 3. Then Sumrall drops to 4A.

[Rebel Bert]

How many 1A/2A schools do we need to lose due to consolidation in order to return to 6 classes? Its going look weird having 40 schools in 1A and 27 football schools as an example divided into 8 regions with 2 or 3 school regions especially in NE Mississippi. 

[pancho]

Not sure how many it will take but one thing is for sure, it'll take the MHSAA a minimum 2 years to ponder and then adjust accordingly.

[MSSportsGuy]

2 hours ago, Rebel Bert said:

How many 1A/2A schools do we need to lose due to consolidation in order to return to 6 classes? Its going look weird having 40 schools in 1A and 27 football schools as an example divided into 8 regions with 2 or 3 school regions especially in NE Mississippi. 

The increase in consolidations was one of the reasons I gave years ago for why we don't need 7 classes and perhaps not even 6. 

 

There will continue to be other closures and mergers. At the very least 1A football should go to 4 regions again. 

[Rebel Bert]

2 hours ago, MSSportsGuy said:

The increase in consolidations was one of the reasons I gave years ago for why we don't need 7 classes and perhaps not even 6. 

 

There will continue to be other closures and mergers. At the very least 1A football should go to 4 regions again. 

I agree that 4 regions was enough even if we send 6 to 8 per region to the playoffs.

[Rebel Bert]

With Leake County merging the high schools we will eventually have to change the makeup of division of classes. This drops us to 43 schools in 1A and 33 football schools. 

The new make up will be:

7A 24 Recommend is 16/20

6A Next 24

5A Next 24

4A 40

3A 40 2 non-football (New Site/OLA)

2A 40

1A 47/51 10 non-football

Otherwise 1A will be left with 43 and only 33 football.  Obviously we will loose the following in near time as Leflore County is also building a new school for 4A Greenwood, 3A Amanda Elzy, and 1A Leflore County. Then we drop to 42 and 32. Rumor is Attala County may consolidate and we drop to 41 and 31. Now we are down below 4 Regions x 8 schools.

[pancho]

Ethel, McAdams and Kosy would be all put together in Attala County?

[Rebel Bert]

1 hour ago, pancho said:

Ethel, McAdams and Kosy would be all put together in Attala County?

I was thinking they have 2 different districts in Attala County. But if all 3 then all 3 that will be Attala County and Kosciusko City merging. That makes sence.

[Rebel Bert]

2 hours ago, pancho said:

Ethel, McAdams and Kosy would be all put together in Attala County?

That will bring us to 41 and 31 football schools in 1A.

[Rebel Bert]

3 hours ago, pancho said:

Ethel, McAdams and Kosy would be all put together in Attala County?

6A school and when does it go into affect.

[Rebel Bert]

I think i will wait till after tomorrow's pod cast to see what's in the works Then I will relook at all potential or rumored consolidations to reclassification 7 thru 1 or 4 regions in 1A, etc.

[Rebel Bert]

It will be interesting to see if we go back to 6 classes like Alabama  but we don't have the private schools for 2 classes making 8 classes total with 5 days of championship games.

[MSSportsGuy]

19 hours ago, Rebel Bert said:

I was thinking they have 2 different districts in Attala County. But if all 3 then all 3 that will be Attala County and Kosciusko City merging. That makes sence.

It makes sense for sure, but I don't see the districts combining unless forced by legislation. 

 

Attala County would be wise to follow what Starkville did with Oktibbeha County Schools and merge them all into one high school. The county is poor and likely isn't able to have many resources when compared with the city. While no doubt both are probably fine with the situation, it would likely be best for the kids for a single district and high school.

 

McAdams and Ethel have very different demographics so just merging them together would not likely go over well but could happen of course.