Two Local Elementary Schools Set To Close Its Doors

NOXUBEE COUNTY, Miss. (WCBI) – For decades the school doors at B.F. Liddell and Virgil Jones Jr. Elementary Schools have been opened to hundreds.

However, in two weeks those doors will be closing.

State-appointed superintendent Rod Broadnax said the decision to close both schools is solely based on financial reasons.

Shaquita Malone has a daughter who attends Virgil Jones Jr. Elementary school, and calls this decision shocking and devastating.

“We have a lot of teachers that work closely with our students here, and they have to get reacquainted with something else in a different environment,” said Malone. “I’m going to participate with the change, it’s just that I hate it has to change.”

With these closings, students at both schools will now move into Earl Nash Elementary School in Macon.

B. F. Liddell and Virgil Jones, Jr. Elementary schools will officially close on October 5th.