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If you had an hour of school board time for BLACKBURN MIDDLE SCHOOL, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
317
Middle
DISTRICT 425 · STATE 452
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JACKSON PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 280219000372
Blackburn Middle School
1311 W Pearl St, Jackson, MS 39203 · (601) 960-5329 · Hinds County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL317 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
7.3:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.0:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
316 students
DISTRICT 100% · STATE 80%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 74 | 23% |
| Grade 7 | 111 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 132 | 42% |
Student demographics
4%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 14% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MAAP 2024-25 . % Proficient + AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
13.0%
MS avg 45.9% . +0.8pp since 2023
Math
13.0%
MS avg 52.8% . -2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the MAAP, Mississippi's statewide test, about 13 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Mississippi schools, those numbers are about 46 and 53. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
MAAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 13.0% | 13.0% |
| 2023-24 | 12.2% | 15.0% |
% Proficient + Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: MAAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of MS schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
16.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.3%
based on MS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-28.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 16% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 44% typical for Mississippi schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Blackburn Middle School
Blackburn Middle School's state test result (16.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blackburn Middle School this school | 317 | 99.7% | 16.0% |
| S.V. Marshall Middle School Lexington | 321 | 100.0% | 27.5% |
| Robert L Merritt Junior High Indianola | 341 | 100.0% | 48.5% |
| Quitman County Middle School MARKS | 265 | 100.0% | 34.2% |
| Morgantown Elementary Natchez | 359 | 100.0% | 38.1% |
| Bailey APAC Middle School Jackson | 318 | 99.1% | 68.5% |
Matched among Mississippi middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Blackburn Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Mississippi | In Hinds County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 16.0% | #174 of 176 | #11 of 13 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 13.0% | #174 of 181 ▲ 2 | #11 of 15 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 13.0% | #176 of 181 no change | #13 of 15 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 317 | #121 of 186 | #13 of 15 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 7.3:1 | #1 of 163 | #1 of 15 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 4.4% | #161 of 164 | #14 of 15 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.7% | #53 of 184 | #10 of 15 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -25.8% | #31 of 119 | #2 of 6 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
317
-337 (-52%) vs 2020
-58% since 1990-91, when it was 757
Student : Teacher
7.3:1
was 12.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 317 | 43.4 | 7.3:1 | 100% (316) |
| 2023-24 | 495 | 49.4 | 10.0:1 | 100% (495) |
| 2022-23 | 614 | 47.9 | 12.8:1 | 100% (614) |
| 2020-21 | 654 | 52 | 12.6:1 | 100% (654) |
| 2017-18 | 427 | 37.2 | 11.5:1 | 100% (427) |
| 2015-16 | 462 | 38 | 12.2:1 | 100% (462) |
| 2010-11 | 446 | 34 | 13.1:1 | 95% (422) |
| 2000-01 | 584 | 40 | 14.6:1 | 81% (474) |
| 1990-91 | 757 | 40 | 18.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Blackburn Middle School.
About Blackburn Middle School
Jackson, Mississippi, is home to Blackburn Middle School, a small middle school. It covers grades 6 through 8, with a total enrollment of 317 students. Statewide, middle schools in Mississippi average about 452 students each.
Blackburn Middle School is one of 45 schools in Jackson Public Schools, which enrolls 19,765 students in total.
Black students are the large majority at Blackburn Middle School, with 98% of enrollment. County-wide, 72% of Hinds County residents are Black. Blackburn Middle School has a diversity index of 4%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Teachers at Blackburn Middle School total 43.4 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 7.3:1. The 13.7:1 average for middle schools in Mississippi is higher than this school's figure. The school counts 316 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 100%. The 88% average for public schools in Hinds County is 12 points lower.
Blackburn Middle School trails its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests by 28.2 points (16.0% versus 44.3%), a bottom-10% result in Mississippi on BeatsExpectations.
Census estimates describe Hinds County this way: median household income is about $49,402, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 17% of people live in poverty. The public schools of Hinds County number 84 and enroll about 32,870.
The closest other public school is Isable Elementary School, about 0.8 miles away. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 16.0% is below the 39.3% average for nearby schools.
Federal records code the school's setting as City: Mid-size.
Federal records list enrollment at Blackburn Middle School as 654 in 2020-21 and 317 in 2024-25. A change that size can reflect a shift in the grades the school serves as well as a change in students. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 12.6:1; by 2024-25 it was 7.3:1.
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Hinds County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
218,533
Census ACS
Median income
$49,402
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
17%
Below federal line
Schools in county
84
32,870 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Jackson Public Schools
- Murrah High SchoolHigh · 1,259 students
- Forest Hill High SchoolHigh · 1,139 students
- Callaway High SchoolHigh · 994 students
- Jim Hill High SchoolHigh · 975 students
- Lanier Junior/Senior High SchoolHigh · 895 students
- Provine High SchoolHigh · 791 students
Other schools in Jackson
- Murrah High SchoolHigh · 1,259 students
- Forest Hill High SchoolHigh · 1,139 students
- Callaway High SchoolHigh · 994 students
- Jim Hill High SchoolHigh · 975 students
- Lanier Junior/Senior High SchoolHigh · 895 students
- Provine High SchoolHigh · 791 students
Nearby schools
- Isable Elementary School0.8 mi · 244
- Jim Hill High School1.0 mi · 975
- Provine High School1.0 mi · 791
- Lanier Junior/Senior High School1.2 mi · 895
- Pecan Park Elementary School1.3 mi · 510
- Barack Obama Elementary School1.7 mi · 242
Frequently asked questions
About Blackburn Middle SchoolHow many students attend Blackburn Middle School?
Blackburn Middle School enrolls approximately 317 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Blackburn Middle School serve?
Blackburn Middle School serves grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Blackburn Middle School?
Approximately 7.3:1 students per teacher at Blackburn Middle School.
What is the student diversity at Blackburn Middle School?
Student demographics at Blackburn Middle School are roughly 1% White, 1% Hispanic, 98% Black, 1% Two or more.
What district is Blackburn Middle School in?
Blackburn Middle School is part of Jackson Public Schools.
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