Collins High School

Collins High School is a senior high of modestly sized scale in COLLINS, Mississippi, one of the schools within Covington County School District, educateing 373 students in grades 7 through 13. That puts it 43% below the typical public school in Mississippi, which averages around 651 students.

Across the 7 schools in Covington County School District (2,492 students total), Collins High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Collins High School records that Black students make up the majority at 72%; the rest reads as 14% White, 9% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Covington County as a whole is about 35% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Collins High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 47.5%; this one delivers 38.8%.

Around the school, census data for Covington County shows median household income runs about $45,051, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 20%. In all, Covington County runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,492 students), of which Collins High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Collins Elementary School, around 0.5 miles off. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Collins High School has ticked up 36%, going from 274 students in 2018 to 373 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 78% to 72%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 in 2025.

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