Callaway High School

Callaway High School is one of the well-populated 9-12 campuss in Jackson, Mississippi, overseen by Jackson Public Schools, with 994 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 13. Enrollment runs roughly 53% bigger than the state mean of about 651.

Within Jackson Public Schools, which oversees 35 schools and 16,870 students, Callaway High School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Callaway High School logs that nearly all students (96%) are Black. Beyond that, the school logs 3% Hispanic. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 72%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 71 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.6:1 average. Roughly 100% of students at Callaway High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Hinds County (around 88%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Callaway High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.2%, the actual is 45.1%, a residual of -2.1 points.

Across the wider 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 the poverty rate sits near 17%. In all, Hinds County runs 84 public schools (combined enrollment of about 32,870 students), of which Callaway High School is one.

North Jackson Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Callaway High School operates from a high-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 6%: 1,063 students in 2018 compared to 994 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 in 2025.

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