There are no public schools – haven’t been for decades.
There are no factories and no hospitals in Issaquena County. There are virtually no jobs for college graduates in this rural county blanketed in farm fields of soybeans, cotton and corn.
Students from Issaquena County attend school in neighboring counties - and it’s a big reason why many of these kids will have no choice when they grow up but to move away. Make a tax-exempt donation now.īut there is no college here, not for miles and miles in fact, there is no public school of any kind. Homecoming in Issaquena County, the least populated county in Mississippi - and one of the smallest in the country - is so popular that locals call it “South Delta University.”
