Leake Central Junior High School

Leake Central Junior High School, a close-knit intermediate school in CARTHAGE, Mississippi, run under Leake County School District, hosts 383 students, covering grades 6 through 8.

Leake Central Junior High School is one of 5 schools operated by Leake County School District, a district that educates 2,408 students overall.

On demographics, Leake Central Junior High School lists that 58% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder reads as 24% Hispanic, 14% White, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 39%.

On the resource side, Leake Central Junior High School lists 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Leake County) logs that median household earnings sit near $50,728, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. In all, Leake County runs 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,644 students), of which Leake Central Junior High School is one.

Leake Central Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 21%: 487 students in 2018 compared to 383 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 26% to 14% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 in 2025.

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