Armstrong Junior High School

Set in Starkville, Mississippi, Armstrong Junior High School is an intimate middle school, operated by Starkville Oktibbeha Consolidated School District. It instructs 358 students across grade 8. Enrollment runs roughly 21% below the state mean of about 452.

Starkville Oktibbeha Consolidated School District comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 4,880 students; Armstrong Junior High School is among them.

On demographics, Armstrong Junior High School lists that 70% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest breaks down as 26% White, 3% Asian. By comparison, Oktibbeha County as a whole is about 36% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Armstrong Junior High School has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Armstrong Junior High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 67% of students at Armstrong Junior High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Oktibbeha County indicate median household earnings sit near $46,695, roughly 47% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Oktibbeha County runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,880 students), of which Armstrong Junior High School is one.

Henderson Ward Stewart Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 70%: 1,204 students in 2018 compared to 358 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 in 2025.

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