Hazlehurst High School

Set in HAZLEHURST, Mississippi, Hazlehurst High School is a low-enrollment 9-12 campus, overseen by Hazlehurst City School District. It enrolls 385 students across grades 9 through 13. By comparison, Mississippi's public schools average about 651 students each, so Hazlehurst High School sits 41% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Hazlehurst City School District, which oversees 3 schools and 1,320 students, Hazlehurst High School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Hazlehurst High School records that 81% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder reads as 14% Hispanic, 3% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Copiah County as a whole is about 51% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 101% of students at Hazlehurst High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Hazlehurst High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 46.6%; this one delivers 38.1%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Copiah County put median household income runs about $49,089, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Copiah County's 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,397 students), Hazlehurst High School is one campus in the mix.

Hazlehurst Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Hazlehurst High School comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 57.2%.

Hazlehurst High School operates from an outlying location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 391 students in 2018 compared to 385 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment decreased from 94% to 81% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 in 2025.

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