Magnolia Middle School

As a modestly sized junior high in MOSS POINT, Mississippi, Magnolia Middle School works with 359 students from grades 6 through 8, overseen by Moss Point School District. By comparison, Mississippi's public schools average about 452 students each, so Magnolia Middle School sits 21% below that benchmark.

Moss Point School District comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,611 students; Magnolia Middle School is among them.

On demographics, Magnolia Middle School reports that 72% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder breaks down as 16% White, 12% Hispanic. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

On the resource side, Magnolia Middle School reports 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Jackson County's rate of about 59%.

In the broader community, census data for Jackson County shows median household earnings sit near $66,201, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Jackson County's 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,712 students), Magnolia Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Moss Point High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Magnolia Middle School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 21%: 457 students in 2018 compared to 359 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 3% to 12% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.

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