OKOLONA HIGH SCHOOL
OKOLONA, MS·Public·Rural, some distance out·OKOLONA SEPARATE SCHOOL DIST
Dual enrollment in Mississippi
College credit earned while still in high school. It is the single largest lever on a college bill, and what it costs your family depends almost entirely on which state you are in.
There is no broad state subsidy, so dual-enrolment credits are billed at the college’s own rate. That is still far below university tuition, and it is the case where comparing colleges matters most.
Dual Enrollment / Dual Credit programs, incl. the Mississippi Works Dual Enrollment-Dual Credit Option Program (Miss. Code Ann. § 37-15-38)
Price set locally
Mississippi has NO statewide guarantee that dual enrollment is free. For the general dual enrollment program the statute expressly permits tuition and costs to be paid by the college, the local school district, the parents/legal guardians, or by grants — so families can legally be billed, and each community college sets its own discounted per-hour or per-course rate. Only under the separate Mississippi Works Dual Enrollment-Dual Credit Option Program does the statute say tuition and costs shall not be charged to the student or parents. A separate state Dual Enrollment/Dual Credit (DEDC) Scholarship exists but its award rate was not verified on this page, so no dollar figure is asserted.
Who can enroll. The statute leaves admission standards to the institutions: students may enroll in community/junior college dual enrollment courses if they meet that institution's stated dual enrollment admission requirements. The Mississippi Community College Board's statewide criteria (published separately at mccb.edu, not on this page) are juniors/seniors with a minimum 3.0 GPA for academic dual enrollment and sophomores or above with at least a 2.0 GPA for CTE dual credit, with a 2.0 college GPA required to continue. Applies to Mississippi public community/junior colleges and IHL universities.
Anchored on 15 public colleges in Mississippi · verified 2026-07-31.
Community colleges in Mississippi
We do not hold map coordinates for this school, so these are the largest community colleges in the state rather than the closest ones. Check the drive before you plan around any of them. Open one to see what starting there and transferring would actually save.
- Hinds Community CollegeRaymond, MS$4,250in-state / yr
- Mississippi Gulf Coast Community CollegePerkinston, MS$4,250in-state / yr
- Northwest Mississippi Community CollegeSenatobia, MS$3,740in-state / yr
- Pearl River Community CollegePoplarville, MS$3,700in-state / yr
- Itawamba Community CollegeFulton, MS$3,420in-state / yr
Scholarships only this school's students can win
Awards in our corpus that name this high school. Smaller applicant pools than anything national - often by orders of magnitude.
Results
State assessments, 2021. Reported by EDFacts as ranges rather than exact figures, to keep small cohorts from being identifiable.
| Year | Math | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 32% | 25% |
| 2019 | 25% | 25% |
| 2018 | 35% | 22% |
Who goes here
100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That figure is also the federal shorthand for family income, and it is what most need-based aid and fee waivers key on.
Outside of class
Activities colleges actually read on an application - and where to find them near this school. Depth in one or two beats a list of ten.
Plan from here
Directory, enrollment and staffing from the NCES Common Core of Data; proficiency and graduation from EDFacts. Dual-enrollment funding rules from state policy, verified on our last review. Figures change - confirm with the school before relying on one. NCES record