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In the Grenada School District, we are proud to have a band program that is not only recognized statewide but also respected across the country. This level of success does not happen by chance. It is the result of years of tradition, strong leadership, careful planning, and an unwavering commitment to excellence.

Did You Know?

• Mississippi State University’s new Entrepreneurship major includes product development, venture creation, and branding coursework.

• Universiy of Southern Mississippi offers certificates in professional selling and marketing analytics—skills students practice every day in the Make-It-Lab.

• The custom merchandise and promotional product industry in the U.S. is worth over $30 billion annually.

• Students in Grenada are learning with industry-grade equipment like sublimation presses, vinyl cutters, and embroidery machines—before they graduate high school.

Students at the Grenada Career and Tech Center recently welcomed Mr. Robert Black from Nashville Auto-Diesel College to speak with automotive students about career and training opportunities. 

Colonel Reed is a graduate of multiple Navy and Marine Corps training programs. However, you will be most familiar with his flight training in the F/A-18D Hornet with over 3,000 flight hours as a Weapons Systems Officer. He has attained every instructor and mission qualification in the Hornet, and most notably he is a graduate of the Navy Fighter Weapons School—Top Gun.

GSD alum Dr. Shaquita Starks was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, one of the highest honors in the profession.

Students collaborate by testing ideas and adapting competition strategies. This format emphasizes teamwork, problem-solving, and engineering skills. Throughout the school year, FIRST offers exciting and educational experiences. 

Featuring Most Beautiful Michaela Raymond and Most Handsome Ty Edwards.

Students from the GCTC Culinary Class teamed up with classes from Grenada Upper Elementary to celebrate the holiday season by baking Christmas cookies together. The festive collaboration gave students the opportunity to learn, connect, and share smiles while working side by side in the kitchen. 

Mississippi's accountability system assigns "A" through "F" letter grades for schools and districts. Grades are based on student achievement, student growth, student participation in testing, and other academic measures.

The State Board of Education recognized the Grenada High School Navy JROTC program in November as a Distinguished Unit with Academic Honors for the 2024-25 school year.

For the fourth consecutive year, the Grenada School District has achieved an A rating in the Mississippi Department of Education’s accountability results—a monumental accomplishment that speaks volumes about the unwavering dedication, focus, and excellence of our students, educators, and leadership.

This year’s district accountability score of 707 continues to place Grenada among the highest-performing school districts in the state. Such a distinction is not easily earned—nor easily maintained. It requires relentless effort, strategic planning, and a shared vision for success, year after year.

In a rapidly changing world, artificial intelligence (AI) is redefining how people learn, work, and solve problems. For Grenada School District (GSD), this shift isn’t something happening far away, it’s a new chapter in a journey that began nearly a decade ago with Project Lead The Way (PLTW). Now, Grenada will become one of the first rural school districts in the nation to pilot PLTW’s Principles of Artificial Intelligence course, an initiative designed to bring the power of AI learning to every kind of community, not just major cities or well-funded schools.

GMS School Counselor, Kiara Williams Johnson, was named Mississippi Counseling Association's 2025 School Counselor of the Year!

Students from the Health Science program at Grenada Career & Technical Center (GCTC) took part in the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s (UMMC) Discovery Day in Jackson, Mississippi.

The event, held annually, provides high school students across the state with a hands-on opportunity to explore careers in health care. GCTC students toured medical facilities, interacted with health professionals, and engaged in interactive demonstrations that highlighted fields such as nursing, radiology, surgery, pharmacy, and biomedical research.

Andrew Gordon grew up in Duck Hill, and he played football and graduated from Grenada High School in 2005, working part time at Mo Suga Catfish. After his football career at Holmes was sidelined by injury he moved to Oxford and attended Northwest Community College. In Oxford, Andrew’s aspiring culinary career continued at Oby’s, he said lightheartedly. After culinary school in Oregon, his career has now come full circle as the Culinary Arts teacher at Grenada’s Career and Technical Center. Gordo to his friends, Chef Andrew to his students and employees, says his goal as a teacher is to pass on the lessons learned from years in restaurant kitchens: discipline, attention to detail, and teamwork.