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What's one thing HORN LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
948
Middle
DISTRICT 1,018 · STATE 452
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DESOTO COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 280132000191
Horn Lake Middle School
6125 Hurt Road, Horn Lake, MS 38637 · (662) 393-7443 · DeSoto County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL948 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 19% of Mississippi public middle schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Mississippi public middle schools
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
65 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.3:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
71%
673 students
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 80%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 284 | 30% |
| Grade 7 | 311 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 353 | 37% |
Student demographics
44%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MAAP 2024-25 . % Proficient + AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
29.2%
MS avg 45.9% . +0.3pp since 2023
Math
40.3%
MS avg 52.8% . -4.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the MAAP, Mississippi's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Mississippi schools, those numbers are about 46 and 53. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
MAAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 29.2% | 40.3% |
| 2023-24 | 28.9% | 44.7% |
% Proficient + Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: MAAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of MS schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
38.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.7%
based on MS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-19.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 59% typical for Mississippi schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Horn Lake Middle School
Horn Lake Middle School's state test result (38.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Horn Lake Middle School this school | 948 | 71.0% | 38.9% |
| Southaven Middle School SOUTHAVEN | 1,423 | 64.5% | 36.9% |
| Lake Cormorant Middle School Lake Cormorant | 707 | 68.9% | 45.0% |
| Byram Middle School Terry | 785 | 70.4% | 42.4% |
| Olive Branch Middle School OLIVE BRANCH | 744 | 62.6% | 48.2% |
| Pearl Jr High School PEARL | 944 | 70.9% | 51.0% |
Matched among Mississippi middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Horn Lake Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Mississippi | In DeSoto County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.9% | #120 of 176 | #7 of 8 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 40.3% | #114 of 181 ▲ 2 | #7 of 8 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 29.2% | #122 of 181 ▼ 1 | #7 of 8 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 948 | #12 of 186 | #5 of 8 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.7:1 | #121 of 163 | #1 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 44.1% | #85 of 164 | #6 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 71.0% | #122 of 184 | #1 of 8 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.4% | #77 of 119 | N/A |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
948
-159 (-14%) vs 2020
+15% since 1990-91, when it was 823
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
was 14.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 948 | 64.7 | 14.7:1 | 71% (673) |
| 2023-24 | 993 | 70 | 14.2:1 | 79% (781) |
| 2022-23 | 1,021 | 64.2 | 15.9:1 | 100% (1,018) |
| 2020-21 | 1,107 | 77 | 14.4:1 | 100% (1,104) |
| 2017-18 | 1,070 | 72.1 | 14.8:1 | 84% (902) |
| 2015-16 | 1,109 | 62 | 17.9:1 | 85% (943) |
| 2010-11 | 1,214 | 73 | 16.6:1 | 75% (906) |
| 2000-01 | 1,263 | 64 | 19.7:1 | 28% (354) |
| 1990-91 | 823 | 40 | 20.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Horn Lake Middle School.
About Horn Lake Middle School
Horn Lake Middle School is a high-enrollment middle school that serves part of Horn Lake, Mississippi. It enrolled 948 students in grades 6 through 8 for the 2024-25 school year. Enrollment is 110% higher than the average for middle schools in Mississippi, which is about 452.
Across its 39 schools, DeSoto County School District enrolls 34,934 students. Horn Lake Middle School is one of those schools.
Black students make up a majority at Horn Lake Middle School, at 73%. Other students are 12% Hispanic, 11% White, and 4% multiracial. That is higher than the 33% Black share among all DeSoto County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 44% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The teaching staff at Horn Lake Middle School is 64.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 14.7:1. This ratio sits 1.0 above the 13.7:1 average for middle schools in Mississippi. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 71%. That is higher than the 49% average for public schools in DeSoto County.
Horn Lake Middle School is graded C- by allk12, scoring above 19% of Mississippi public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Test results at Horn Lake Middle School are 19.8 points below what its student poverty level predicts. The average proficiency rate on state tests is 38.9%, compared with a predicted 58.7%, which ranks in the bottom 10% in Mississippi.
Within DeSoto County, the median household income is $85,297, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Besides Horn Lake Middle School, DeSoto County has 42 other public schools.
The shortest distance from Horn Lake Middle School to another public school is about 0.4 miles, to Horn Lake Elementary School. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Horn Lake Middle School places 7th of 9 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
The federal government classifies Horn Lake Middle School's location as Suburb: Large.
2024-25 enrollment was 948, a 14% decrease from 1,107 in 2020-21.
The discussion area below is open to posts about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
DeSoto County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
191,301
Census ACS
Median income
$85,297
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
29%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
43
34,934 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in DeSoto County School District
- DeSoto Central High SchoolHigh · 2,004 students
- Southaven High SchoolHigh · 1,876 students
- Hernando High SchoolHigh · 1,529 students
- Southaven Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,423 students
- DeSoto Central Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,388 students
- Lewisburg High SchoolHigh · 1,330 students
Other schools in Horn Lake
- Horn Lake High SchoolHigh · 1,271 students
- Horn Lake Intermediate SchoolElementary · 914 students
- Horn Lake Elementary SchoolElementary · 520 students
- Shadow Oaks Elementary SchoolElementary · 423 students
- DeSoto Co. Career Center WestHigh
Nearby schools
- Horn Lake Elementary School0.4 mi · 520
- Horn Lake High School1.2 mi · 1,271
- Shadow Oaks Elementary School1.3 mi · 423
- Horn Lake Intermediate School1.6 mi · 914
- Hope Sullivan Elementary School2.0 mi · 563
- Southaven Middle School2.6 mi · 1,423
Frequently asked questions
About Horn Lake Middle SchoolHow large is Horn Lake Middle School?
Horn Lake Middle School enrolls approximately 948 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Horn Lake Middle School serve?
Horn Lake Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does Horn Lake Middle School have?
Horn Lake Middle School employs 65 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.7:1.
What is the student diversity at Horn Lake Middle School?
Student demographics at Horn Lake Middle School are roughly 11% White, 12% Hispanic, 73% Black, 0% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Horn Lake Middle School?
Horn Lake Middle School is overseen by DeSoto County School District in DeSoto County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.