Aberdeen High School

Aberdeen High School, an intimate 9-12 campus in Aberdeen, Mississippi, operated by Aberdeen School District, hosts 312 students, covering grades 9 through 13. That puts it 52% below the typical public school in Mississippi, which averages around 651 students.

Aberdeen High School is one of 3 schools operated by Aberdeen School District, a district that instructs 924 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Aberdeen High School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (93%); the rest looks like 4% multiracial, 2% White. By comparison, Monroe County as a whole is about 30% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.6:1 average. Roughly 100% of students at Aberdeen High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Monroe County's rate of about 69%.

With demographic context factored in, Aberdeen High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.2%, the actual is 44.4%, a residual of -2.7 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Monroe County put median household income runs about $51,866, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Monroe County runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,387 students), of which Aberdeen High School is one.

Belle-Shivers Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Aberdeen High School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 66.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Aberdeen High School's enrollment has edged up 3% since 2018, when it stood at 303 (now 312). Over the same period, the Black share declined from 98% to 93%. Class-load math has grew: from 6.6:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 in 2025.

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