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Public Schools in Mississippi

877 schools · 152 districts · 440,285 students

30%
Below average
Avg Proficiency
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Largest Schools in Mississippi

School data sourced from NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) via the Common Core of Data.

Tupelo High School

Tupelo

2,001 students

Desoto Central High School

Southaven

1,995 students

Grenada Elementary School

Grenada

1,967 students

Ocean Springs High School

Ocean Springs

1,899 students

Northwest Rankin High School

Flowood

1,898 students

Southaven High School

Southaven

1,850 students

Oak Grove High School

Hattiesburg

1,777 students

Biloxi High School

Biloxi

1,728 students

Gulfport High School

Gulfport

1,728 students

Brandon High School

Brandon

1,648 students

Frequently Asked Questions

Mississippi has 877 public schools across 152 districts, serving 440,285 students.

The largest school in Mississippi is Tupelo High School with 2,001 students. Mississippi has 877 public schools overall.

The average proficiency rate is 30%. Proficiency rates measure the percentage of students meeting state standards on standardized assessments, as reported by EDFacts.

All school data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data for enrollment and school characteristics, and EDFacts for proficiency rates and graduation rates.

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School data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments. No synthetic scores are used.

The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.

Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.

Practical use of this page is in combination with the comparison and ranking pages elsewhere on the site, which surface the same data for this entity’s peers within U.S. public schools and districts. A single-entity reading without peer context can be misleading when an entity is an outlier on one axis but typical on another.