Magee Middle School

Located at 413 Choctaw St. E Suite 100, in Magee, Mississippi, Magee Middle School is a low-enrollment 6-8 campus that enrolls 260 students (grades 6 through 8), part of Simpson County School District. Enrollment runs roughly 42% below the state mean of about 452.

Within Simpson County School District, which oversees 6 schools and 2,797 students, Magee Middle School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Magee Middle School shows that Black students make up the majority at 57%; the rest breaks down as 32% White, 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Simpson County as a whole is about 36% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Magee Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 94% of students at Magee Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Magee Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.0%, the actual is 33.0%, a residual of -14.0 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Simpson County indicate median household earnings sit near $56,381, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. In all, Simpson County runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,023 students), of which Magee Middle School is one.

Magee High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Magee Middle School at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 51.4%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Five-year trend. Magee Middle School's enrollment has ticked down 49% since 2018, when it stood at 505 (now 260). Over the same period, the White share fell from 36% to 32%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.7:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 in 2025.

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