Bay Springs High School

Bay Springs High School is one of the very small secondary schools in BAY SPRINGS, Mississippi, operated by West Jasper School District, with 241 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 651 students per school, that is 63% below typical.

West Jasper School District comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,371 students; Bay Springs High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Bay Springs High School logs that 90% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 7% White, 2% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 52%.

On the income-and-resources front, Bay Springs High School reports 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.6:1 average. About 94% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Bay Springs High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.9%, the actual is 52.7%, a residual of +2.8 points.

In the area at large, census data for Jasper County shows the typical household earns roughly $48,660 per year, about 12% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Bay Springs High School is one of 7 public schools in Jasper County (combined enrollment of about 2,110 students).

Nearest neighbor: Bay Springs Middle School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Bay Springs High School. On composite proficiency, Bay Springs High School comes 3rd of 4 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 57.8%.

Bay Springs High School operates from a countryside location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 246 students in 2018 compared to 241 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.