Ashland High School

Set in Ashland, Mississippi, Ashland High School is a very small high school, run under Benton County School District. It teaches 212 students across grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Mississippi's public schools average about 651 students each, so Ashland High School sits 67% smaller than that benchmark.

Benton County School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 909 students; Ashland High School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Ashland High School shows that 74% of the student body identifies as Black. Beyond that, the school lists 12% White, 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 35% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.6:1 average. Roughly 88% of students at Ashland High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Ashland High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 52.7%; this one comes in at 39.8%, -12.9 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Benton County) records that median household earnings sit near $46,016, 13% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Ashland High School is one of 4 public schools in Benton County (combined enrollment of about 909 students).

Nearest neighbor: Ashland Elementary School, around 1.7 miles off. On composite proficiency, Ashland High School comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 59.4%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ashland High School has edged up 15%, going from 184 students in 2018 to 212 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 84% to 74% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.0:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.