Video: Last Year for Oktibbeha County Schools

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OKTIBBEHA COUNTY, Miss.(WCBI) — What has been talk of consolidating Starkville with Oktibbeha County Schools is now reality. After this year students will no longer be attending schools in the West and Eastern Oktibbeha County. Due to consolidation, in May the last high school class will be graduating. All students will be in the Starkville School District.

Former West Oktibbeha County High School graduate and football running back Tyberias Lampkin is adjusting to the fact that there will be no more games between his old team and their football rival from East of the county. For the 2013 graduate it’s a bitter-sweet change.

“It’s bitter because its home for me. And to know it will be no more, but it’s also a sweet feeling to know that the kids from a smaller school will be getting a bigger chance to go to a bigger school and have better opportunities,” said Tyberias Lampkin/West Oktibbeha High Graduate.

“I feel bad about it you know cause a lot of people have a lot of memories and things from there,” said Marketta Williams/Maben.

In her younger years, athlete Marketta Williams remembers attending the Old Wicks Elementary School in Maben, she remembers running track in high school and has the ribbons to prove it.

“I ran like the 8 mile, 8 times around. The sprint, I did all those,” said Marketta Williams.

East and West played their last football game at their respective schools for the very last time October 10th of 2014. Lampkin and his team seen here at a football game in 2013, always seem to come up on top some how.

“Each year we be like, who gonna get the trophy next. Almost like a Mississippi State vs Ole Miss game. Every year I was there we won. We weren’t going to let them get the trophy,” said Tyberias Lampkin.

All that’s going to be left now are the school buildings and the memories of good times had there. After May, future students from both east and west of Oktibbeha County will have a new home in the Starkville Oktibbeha Consolidated School District.

Educators suggests hundreds of kids are expected to get a better education while saving money because of the Starkville/Oktibbeha County merger.

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