Mississippi School Network · one permanent address for every school in Mississippi
Every Mississippi school, at an address of its own -- Jackson to the last district on the map.
A school in Mississippi -- one of the schools the Mississippi Department of Education oversees -- gets a permanent web address under this root, in the form school.mississippischool.network. Whether the school sits in Gulfport, Southaven, Hattiesburg or Biloxi, or in a town none of those lists reach, the address is issued once and does not move again: not when the school is renamed, not when another school in Mississippi turns out to share its name.
Mississippi School Network is an independent service from Stanley Studios. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or run by Mississippi, the Mississippi Department of Education, or any school district — we operate the addressing root, we are not the school and not the state.
The Mississippi this root covers
Real local detail rather than a template: the capital is Jackson, the agency is the Mississippi Department of Education, and one address rule holds from the largest district in the state down to the smallest.
State capital
Jackson
The root covers all of Mississippi — the capital and every district past it.
State education agency
Mississippi Department of Education
The agency that oversees this state’s public schools. We are not it, and this root is not run by it.
Addresses issued across
Jackson, Gulfport, Southaven, Hattiesburg, Biloxi, and Meridian
and the towns in between — a two-teacher school is addressed the same way the largest campus is.
How an address is issued in Mississippi
Issued once, then it stops changing
A published address that moves is a broken link, a broken bookmark, and a broken sign-in destination. So the label is ISSUED and then recorded — it is not re-derived from the school’s name every time someone loads the page.
A rename does not move it
If a Mississippi school is renamed the following year, its address is unchanged. The name it was issued under is not the thing the address is computed from once it exists, so the old links keep working and nothing has to be re-sent to families.
A late name collision does not move it either
Two Mississippi schools can genuinely carry the same name, and the second one can appear years after the first. The school that was already addressed keeps what it has; the newcomer gets a distinct label of its own. Whoever was published first is never displaced.
One state, one root
An address under this root is composed from the school’s own state, so a Mississippi school can only ever be addressed at mississippischool.network. A school in another state gets that state’s root instead — there is no fallback root and no guessed one.
The shape of public schooling in Mississippi
How Mississippi is actually put together
Real state-specific detail behind the one-address rule — not a template with the name swapped.
Eighty-two counties, and two different kinds of school district inside them
Mississippi has 82 counties, and its public schooling has long been organized two ways at once: county school districts that cover a whole county, and municipal "separate" school districts run by a town or city inside one. A single county can hold a county district and one or more separate districts side by side.
The Mississippi Department of Education oversees that whole map from Jackson. A permanent address per school sits cleanly on top of it: a school in a county district and a school in a municipal separate district are each named in their own right, without either having to borrow the other's boundary to be found.
The same school names genuinely repeat across the state
Across 82 counties, Mississippi school and district names recur constantly -- the county name used again a county over, the same honored names, the same town names carried by more than one school. When schools are consolidated or renamed, older names get reused, and a name that was unique in one district is not unique across the state.
That is exactly the collision the "issued once" rule on this page is built for. When a second Mississippi school turns up carrying a name a first school already uses, the school that was addressed first keeps its address unchanged, and the newcomer is given a distinct label of its own. Neither is asked to move.
A Mississippi charter school is its own district, so it gets its own address
A Mississippi charter school is not a campus of the district it sits inside. Under the Mississippi Charter Schools Act of 2013, charter schools are authorized by the Mississippi Charter School Authorizer Board, and a chartered school is its own local education agency.
So a charter school is addressed under this root in its own right, distinct from the surrounding county or municipal district, rather than folded into a district it does not belong to. The address names the school as the state actually organizes it, not as a map might guess it.
From the largest district in the state to the smallest, one rule
The DeSoto County School District, in the state's northwest corner near Memphis, is the largest public school district in Mississippi; at the other end are small rural county districts of a few schools each. This root covers that whole range under one rule.
A school in the largest district is named exactly the way a school in the smallest one is: one permanent address, issued once, that does not change when a campus is renamed and does not collide when a school somewhere else in the state turns out to share its name.
"We already run our own domain, and the state already tracks our district"
Most Mississippi districts already run their own domain, and the Mississippi Department of Education already tracks every district in its official records. A district technology director is right to ask what a third label adds.
It is not a replacement for either one. Your own domain stays yours to run; the state's official record stays the official record. This is a permanent public NAMING host under the Mississippi state root -- a stable address that does not change when a campus is renamed and does not collide when another district turns out to share your name. It grants no access, claims no official standing, and sits alongside your domain and the state's records rather than standing in for them.
No Mississippi school is listed here until it has been issued an address. This section describes how Mississippi public schooling is organized; it is not a roster of Mississippi schools, and there is no count of Mississippi schools on this page because an address exists only once it has been issued.
What an address is, and what it is not
An address is a name, not a permission
This root answers exactly one question: what a Mississippi school’s address IS. It never answers who may reach what is behind it. Access is decided somewhere else entirely, by an explicit grant, and having an address here confers none of it. We state that plainly because the opposite reading — that being listed is itself a key — is the one that would do harm.
An address says where a school is. It does not say who may look inside.
The rule this root is built onWhat’s true today
What this root does and does not list
The root is live and the issuing rule described above is the one the system runs. What this page does NOT claim is a finished directory: a Mississippi school appears here once it has been issued an address, and a school that has not been issued one has no address here at all — we do not invent a label for a school in order to look complete. There is no count of Mississippi schools on this page for the same reason.