Mt. Olive Attendance Center

Mt. Olive Attendance Center is one of the cozy multi-level schools in Mount Olive, Mississippi, overseen by Covington County School District, with 282 students on its rolls from grades K through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 46% leaner than the state mean of about 527.

Mt. Olive Attendance Center is one of 7 schools operated by Covington County School District, a district that enrolls 2,492 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Mt. Olive Attendance Center logs that Black students make up the majority at 62%. The remainder breaks down as 28% White, 7% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Covington County as a whole is about 35% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mt. Olive Attendance Center performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.7%, the actual is 52.0%, a residual of +4.4 points.

In the broader community, census data for Covington County shows the typical household earns roughly $45,051 per year, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 20% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Covington County runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,492 students), of which Mt. Olive Attendance Center is one.

The closest other public school is Magee High School, roughly 8.9 miles away. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mt. Olive Attendance Center at 2nd of 5; the average score across the group is 45.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 38%: 452 students in 2018 compared to 282 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 41% to 28% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 8.1:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Mt. Olive Attendance Center community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.