Byram Middle School

Byram Middle School, a large junior high in Terry, Mississippi, part of Hinds County School District, instructs 785 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts it 74% larger than the typical public school in Mississippi, which averages around 452 students.

Hinds County School District comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 4,940 students; Byram Middle School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Byram Middle School records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (91%). The remainder breaks down as 5% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 72% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Byram Middle School has 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Around 70% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Hinds County runs at roughly 88%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Byram Middle School is in the bottom 10% of Mississippi public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 59.0%; Byram Middle School posts 42.4%, -16.6 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Hinds County indicate median household earnings sit near $49,402, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Hinds County's 84 public schools (combined enrollment of about 32,870 students), Byram Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Gary Road Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Byram Middle School.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Five-year trend. Byram Middle School's enrollment has decreased 15% since 2018, when it stood at 921 (now 785). Class-load math has widened: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 in 2025.

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