Holly Springs High School

Holly Springs High School is a 9-12 campus of small scale in Holly Springs, Mississippi, overseen by Holly Springs School District, teacheing 288 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 56% below the state mean of about 651.

Holly Springs High School is one of 4 schools operated by Holly Springs School District, a district that enrolls 993 students overall.

On demographics, Holly Springs High School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (95%). The remainder is composed of 3% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 43%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 84% of students at Holly Springs High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Marshall County runs at roughly 97%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Holly Springs High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 54.6%; actual is 41.4%, a gap of -13.3 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Marshall County shows the typical household earns roughly $53,458 per year, 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 18%. Across Marshall County's 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,762 students), Holly Springs High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Holly Springs Junior High School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Holly Springs High School has fell 30%, going from 413 students in 2018 to 288 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 19.0:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 today.

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