Enrollment
304
High
DISTRICT 222 · STATE 651
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·KEMPER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 280231001116
Kemper County High School
200 Martin Luther King Jr Street, DeKalb, MS 39328 · (601) 743-5292 · Kemper County
GRADES 09–12HIGH43-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL304 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 30% of Mississippi public high schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats 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 high schools
Student : Teacher
7.2:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.9:1 · STATE 12.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
304 students
DISTRICT 100% · STATE 80%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 49 | 16% |
| Grade 10 | 73 | 24% |
| Grade 11 | 80 | 26% |
| Grade 12 | 102 | 34% |
Student demographics
14%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 25% · 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
32.9%
MS avg 45.9% . +4.0pp since 2023
Math
52.3%
MS avg 52.8% . +3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the MAAP, Mississippi's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Mississippi schools, those numbers are about 46 and 53. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
MAAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 32.9% | 52.3% |
| 2023-24 | 28.9% | 49.3% |
% Proficient + Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: MAAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
44.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.1%
based on MS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% typical for Mississippi schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Mississippi's top nor bottom 10%.
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 Kemper County High School
Kemper County High School's state test result (44.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kemper County High School this school | 304 | 100.0% | 44.0% |
| Aberdeen High School Aberdeen | 312 | 100.0% | 46.9% |
| West Tallahatchie High School WEBB | 297 | 99.0% | 38.5% |
| Charleston High School CHARLESTON | 273 | 98.9% | 44.4% |
| Thomas E. Edwards Sr. High School RULEVILLE | 331 | 100.0% | 42.1% |
| North Panola High School SARDIS | 329 | 99.1% | 36.6% |
Matched among Mississippi high 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 Kemper County High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Mississippi |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 44.0% | #144 of 192 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 52.3% | #134 of 199 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 32.9% | #139 of 199 ▲ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 304 | #166 of 203 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 7.2:1 | #2 of 192 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 13.8% | #170 of 192 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #25 of 194 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -32.7% | #8 of 121 |
Ranked against other public high 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
304
+21 (+7%) vs 2020
-68% since 1990-91, when it was 956
Student : Teacher
7.2:1
was 10.1:1
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 | 304 | 42.3 | 7.2:1 | 100% (304) |
| 2023-24 | 337 | 30.6 | 11.0:1 | 100% (337) |
| 2022-23 | 323 | 30.4 | 10.6:1 | 100% (323) |
| 2020-21 | 283 | 28 | 10.1:1 | 100% (283) |
| 2017-18 | 452 | 37 | 12.2:1 | 100% (452) |
| 2015-16 | 495 | 36 | 13.8:1 | 100% (495) |
| 2010-11 | 508 | 32 | 15.9:1 | 90% (459) |
| 2000-01 | 558 | 40 | 13.9:1 | 88% (493) |
| 1990-91 | 956 | 53 | 18.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Kemper County High School.
About Kemper County High School
Kemper County High School is a small high school in DeKalb, Mississippi, administered by Kemper County School District. The school covers grades 9 through 12 and reported 304 students in 2024-25. On average, high schools in Mississippi enroll around 651, and this school is 53% below that mark.
Kemper County School District is the district for Kemper County High School. It has 4 schools and 888 students.
Black students are 93% of those enrolled at Kemper County High School. Beyond that, enrollment is 4% multiracial. In Kemper County overall, about 59% of residents are Black. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 14, compared with 70 nationally.
Its staff includes 42.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 7.2 students per teacher. The average for high schools in Mississippi, 12.6:1, is higher. Kemper County High School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 100%. Public schools in Kemper County average a similar 100%.
On the allk12 Grade, Kemper County High School lands at C, ahead of 30% of Mississippi public high schools.
Kemper County High School's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 44.0% is within a point of the 44.1% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
In Kemper County, home to about 8,729 people, the median household earns about $46,431 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 19% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 21%. Kemper County High School shares Kemper County with 4 other public schools.
Measured in a straight line, Kemper County Middle School is less than a tenth of a mile from Kemper County High School. Other public schools within five miles: 2. The nearest schools with test data average 56.1%, higher than Kemper County High School's 44.0%.
Kemper County High School is coded as Rural: Remote in federal locale data.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 304, up from 283 in 2020-21. The number of students per teacher dropped from 10.1 to 7.2 over 4 years.
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Kemper County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
8,729
Census ACS
Median income
$46,431
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
19%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
21%
Below federal line
Schools in county
5
888 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Kemper County School District
- KCSD Lower Elementary SchoolElementary · 285 students
- Kemper County Middle SchoolMiddle · 191 students
- KCSD Upper Elementary SchoolElementary · 108 students
- STENNIS VOC TECH COMPLEXHigh
Other schools in DeKalb
- Kemper County Middle SchoolMiddle · 191 students
- STENNIS VOC TECH COMPLEXHigh
Nearby schools
- Kemper County Middle School0.0 mi · 191
- KCSD Upper Elementary School1.1 mi · 108
- KCSD Lower Elementary School12.8 mi · 285
- Bogue Chitto Elementary School15.8 mi · 177
- West Lauderdale Elementary School17.1 mi · 761
- West Lauderdale High School19.3 mi · 535
Frequently asked questions
About Kemper County High SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Kemper County High School?
Kemper County High School enrolls approximately 304 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does Kemper County High School serve?
Kemper County High School serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Kemper County High School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Kemper County High School is approximately 7.2:1 (42 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Kemper County High School?
Student demographics at Kemper County High School are roughly 1% White, 0% Hispanic, 93% Black, 4% Two or more.
Is Kemper County High School public or private?
Kemper County High School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Kemper County School District.
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