Benoit School District


The Benoit School District was a public school district serving Benoit, Mississippi. The sole school of the district was the Ray Brooks School, in unincorporated Bolivar County.
On July 1, 2014, it consolidated into the West Bolivar Consolidated School District.

History

Beginning in 1986 district students at the high school level did not attend Ray Brooks, but instead West Bolivar High School of the West Bolivar School District, in Rosedale. However high school classes at Ray Brooks resumed in 2000. Linda Coleman, a Democrat member of the Mississippi House of Representatives from Mound Bayou, stated that the costs of transporting children to West Bolivar from Benoit were too high.
In 2012 the Mississippi Legislature passed a bill that required five school districts in Bolivar County to consolidate into two larger ones. On July 1, 2015, the Benoit district consolidated into the West Bolivar Consolidated School District.

Demographics

The school district had 287 students as of 2012. As of that year, of the 152 school districts in the State of Mississippi, Benoit was the smallest K-12 district and one of the 20 smallest school districts overall in the state.

Accountability statistics

As of 2012, the district was, on a state seven step accountability rating, given the third lowest, "low performing," due to test scores. As of the same year the school had a 92% graduation rate, which is much higher than the Mississippi state average.

School uniforms

Students were required to wear school uniforms.