The Walthall County School District is a public school district

School district

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 based in Tylertown

Tylertown, Mississippi

Tylertown is the county seat of Walthall County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 1,910 at the 2000 census.-History:Tylertown was first known as the Magee Settlement. Its first settlement dates back to the emigration of the Magees and Thornhills from South Carolina and is located on a...

, Mississippi

Mississippi

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 (USA

United States

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). The district's boundaries parallel that of Walthall County

Walthall County, Mississippi

-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 15,156 people, 5,571 households, and 4,111 families residing in the county. The population density was 38 people per square mile . There were 6,418 housing units at an average density of 16 per square mile...

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Schools

• Tylertown High School
• Tylertown Upper Elementary School
• Tylertown Lower Elementary School
• Tylertown Primary School
• Dexter Attendance Center
• Salem Attendance Center

2006-07 school year

There were a total of 2,616 students enrolled in the Walthall County 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 65.02% African American, 34.21% White, 0.42% Hispanic, 0.15% Asian, and 0.19% Native American. 65.4% of the district's students were eligible to receive free lunch.

Previous school years

School Year	Enrollment	Gender Makeup		Racial Makeup
		Female	Male	Asian	African American	Hispanic	Native American	White
2005-06	2,732	48%	52%	0.15%	63.18%	0.33%	0.11%	36.24%
2004-05	2,703	48%	52%	0.15%	63.60%	0.30%	0.15%	35.81%
2003-04	2,685	47%	53%	0.15%	63.61%	0.26%	0.15%	35.83%
2002-03	2,695	47%	53%	0.11%	63.75%	0.41%	0.15%	35.58%

Accountability statistics

	2006-07	2005-06	2004-05	2003-04	2002-03
District Accreditation Status	Accredited	Accredited	Accredited	Accredited	Accredited
School Performance Classifications
Level 5 (Superior Performing) Schools	0	0	0	0	0
Level 4 (Exemplary) Schools	1	1	1	1	1
Level 3 (Successful) Schools	2	4	4	3	3
Level 2 (Under Performing) Schools	2	0	0	0	0
Level 1 (Low Performing) Schools	0	0	0	0	0
Not Assigned	1	1	1	1	1

Racial Segregation

On April 13, 2010 the US District Court of Southern Mississippi found that the school board was in violation of a 1970 desegregation law for allowing white students at the Tylertown based schools to transfer to Salem Academy, resulting in predominantly African American classrooms in Tylertown and White classrooms at Salem. The school board had admitted to their computer system using race as a factor in creating classroom assignments for each class of an upcoming school year.