Madison Central High School

In Madison, Mississippi, part of Madison County, Madison Central High School is a high school. Enrollment is 1,260 students in 2024-25, and the school serves grades 10 through 12. The average for high schools in Mississippi is about 651 students, so this school is 94% bigger than average.

Madison Central High School falls under Madison County Schools, which has 21 schools enrolling 12,926 students.

Madison Central High School's enrollment is 58% White. The next largest groups are 29% Black, 8% Asian, and 3% Hispanic. The White share in Madison County as a whole is similar, at about 55%. The chance that two students picked at random at Madison Central High School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 58%.

Staffing totals 95.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 13.1:1. High schools in Mississippi have a similar average ratio of 12.6:1. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 22%. The gap from the 52% average for public schools in Madison County is 30 points.

allk12 grades Madison Central High School a B+. The grade compares the school only with Mississippi public high schools, because each state gives its own test.

A school with Madison Central High School's lunch-eligibility share in Mississippi is predicted to score 83.3%. Madison Central High School scores 80.9%, 2.4 points below that line.

Census Bureau estimates for Madison County show that median household income is about $83,441, roughly 50% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Madison Central High School is one of 34 public schools in Madison County, which together enroll about 16,432 students.

The nearest public school is Madison Middle School, at about 0.9 miles. Madison Central High School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. The school's 80.9% average proficiency ranks 4th among 9 nearby schools.

By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Enrollment was essentially flat over 4 years: 1,237 in 2020-21, 1,260 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.5:1 in 2020-21 to 13.1:1 in 2024-25.

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