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 Education

Walnut Grove is served by two schools in the Leake County School District:

South Leake Elementary School

1130 School Street
Walnut Grove, MS 39189
(601) 253-2324
Jimmy Henderson, Principal

 

 

 

 

South Leake High School

220 Spruce Street
Walnut Grove, MS 39189
(601) 253-2393
James Chambers, Principal 

Robbye Crosby, Assistant Principal

A private school Leake Academy is located approximately 8 miles away in Madden, Mississippi.

The Leake County Vocational-Technical Center in Carthage also serves students from the Walnut Grove Area.

Walnut Grove is strategically located in the middle of leading colleges and universities including:

  • The University of Mississippi, with its National Center for Physical Acoustics, National Center for the Development of Natural Products, and National Center for Computational Hydroscience and Engineering

  • Mississippi University for Women, one of the highest rated academic institutions in the USA

  • Mississippi State University, with its National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center, The National Research Center for Computational Field Simulation, The

  • High Voltage Laboratory, and one of the top industrial assessment centers in the USA

  • University of Southern Mississippi, with one of the top three polymer research and development institutions in the USA

  • University of Mississippi Medical Center

  • Millsaps College and Mississippi College, both of which maintain nationally high academic ratings

  • Jackson State University, which produces more African-American BS graduates in computer science than any other university in the USA.

Mississippi's universities and research centers possess almost one-fourth of all the super computers in the USA.

 Distances to Area Colleges & Universities

(sorted by distance)

University of Mississippi Medical Center

 63 miles

Millsaps College

 65 miles

Belhaven College

 65 miles

Jackson State University

 68 miles

Mississippi College

 71 miles

Mississippi State University - Meridian Campus

 73 miles

Mississippi State University

 88 miles

University of Southern Mississippi

102 miles

Mississippi University for Women

112 miles

Mississippi valley State University

115 miles

Alcorn University

132 miles

University of Mississippi

152 miles

University of Alabama

165 miles

University of Memphis

189 miles

Louisiana State University

232 miles

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Distances to Area Community Colleges

(sorted by distance)

East Central Community College

33 miles
Holmes Community College45 miles
Hinds Community College - Rankin Campus58 miles
Holmes Community College - Ridgeland Campus64 miles
East Mississippi Community College65 miles
Hinds Community College77 miles