Corinth High School

As a moderately sized 9-12 campus in CORINTH, Mississippi, Corinth High School enrolls 610 students from grades 9 through 13, one of the schools within Corinth School District.

Corinth High School is one of 3 schools operated by Corinth School District, a district that hosts 2,400 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Corinth High School logs that the most-represented group is White (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 25% Black, 16% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 81% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.6:1 average. Around 57% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Corinth High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 67.4%; actual is 6.3%, a gap of -61.1 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Alcorn County indicate median household earnings sit near $51,260, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Alcorn County runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,626 students), of which Corinth High School is one.

Corinth Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Corinth High School's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 600 (now 610). White enrollment moved from 58% to 50% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.

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