Amory High School

Amory High School is a senior high of compact scale in Amory, Mississippi, operated by Amory School District, serveing 444 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 32% below the state mean of about 651.

Across the 4 schools in Amory School District (1,461 students total), Amory High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Amory High School records that 55% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 38% Black, 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Monroe County as a whole is about 67% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 62% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Amory High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.1%, the actual is 67.1%, a residual of +4.0 points.

In the area at large, census data for Monroe County shows median household earnings sit near $51,866, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Monroe County's 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,387 students), Amory High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: East Amory Elementary, around 0.9 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Amory High School comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 65.4%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Amory High School has shrank 7%, going from 480 students in 2018 to 444 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 62% to 55% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 today.

On allk12, the feed for Amory High School typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.