STARKVILLE — At the beginning of the 2023-24 school year, ninth-graders will be back at Starkville High School.
Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District trustees unanimously approved the move Monday night at their monthly board meeting. Freshmen have been attending along with eighth-graders at Armstrong Junior High School for the last three years.
Returning freshmen to SHS — where they attended prior to the 2020-21 school year — would allow the students to have all of their classes and extracurricular activities at one campus instead of traveling between two. Currently some freshmen are beginning and ending their days at the high school and only coming to Armstrong for the middle of the day.
“I’ve seen it as a parent both ways — with the ninth grade over (at SHS), with the ninth grade here in this building,” board member Sumner Davis said during the…
