Canton High School

Canton High School operates as a middle-of-the-pack high school in Canton, Mississippi, part of Canton Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 899 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 38% bigger than the typical public school in Mississippi, which averages around 651 students.

Within Canton Public Schools, which oversees 7 schools and 3,157 students, Canton High School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Canton High School lists that 78% of the student body identifies as Black. Beyond that, the school logs 16% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 37% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Canton High School reports 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.6:1, putting Canton High School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 100% of students at Canton High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Madison County (around 52%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Canton 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 48.4%, a residual of +1.3 points.

In the area at large, Madison County reports that median household income runs about $83,441, roughly 50% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Canton High School is one of 34 public schools in Madison County (combined enrollment of about 16,432 students).

The closest other public school is CANTON PUBLIC 9TH GRADE SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Canton High School operates from a countryside location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 47%: 612 students in 2018 compared to 899 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 96% to 78% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 21.6:1 in 2018 to 17.7:1 today.

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