Student Body
In the 2010-2011 school year, the school had 816 students. Students come from Leflore, Carroll, Grenada, Holmes, Sunflower, Tallahatchie, and Washington counties.
The New York Times noted that Pillow Academy enrolled almost 800 students for the 1997-98 school year and that not one of them was black.
In the 2009-2010 school year, the demographic profile of the student body was 96.0% white, 1.7% black, and 1.9% Asian. By comparison, the 2010 demographic profile of Leflore County showed the population as 24.9% white, 72.7% black, and 0.6% Asian.
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