CANTON PUBLIC 9TH GRADE SCHOOL

Set in CANTON, Mississippi, CANTON PUBLIC 9TH GRADE SCHOOL is a close-knit unified-grade school, one of the schools within CANTON PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST. It instructs 262 students across grade 9. That puts it 50% smaller than the typical public school in Mississippi, which averages around 527 students.

CANTON PUBLIC 9TH GRADE SCHOOL is a school of CANTON PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

Demographically, CANTON PUBLIC 9TH GRADE SCHOOL logs that 85% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 14% Hispanic. By comparison, Madison County as a whole is about 37% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.8:1 average. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Madison County's rate of about 52%.

In the surrounding community, Madison County reports that the typical household earns roughly $83,441 per year, about 50% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Madison County's 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,432 students), CANTON PUBLIC 9TH GRADE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Canton High School, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools.

CANTON PUBLIC 9TH GRADE SCHOOL operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. CANTON PUBLIC 9TH GRADE SCHOOL's enrollment has expanded 17% since 2018, when it stood at 223 (now 262). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

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