Brookhaven High School

As an average-sized senior high in BROOKHAVEN, Mississippi, Brookhaven High School works with 761 students from grades 9 through 13, one of the schools within Brookhaven School District.

Across the 5 schools in Brookhaven School District (2,432 students total), Brookhaven High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Brookhaven High School reports that the largest single group is Black, at 66% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 28% White, 3% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.6:1, putting Brookhaven High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 71% of students at Brookhaven High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Brookhaven High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 60.6%; this one comes in at 47.8%, -12.8 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Lincoln County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $51,119 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. In all, Lincoln County runs 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,327 students), of which Brookhaven High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Alexander Junior High, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Brookhaven High School comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 65.6%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Looking at the recent track record. Brookhaven High School's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 760 (now 761). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 40% to 28%. Class-load math has fell: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 in 2025.

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