Enrollment
359
Middle
DISTRICT 403 · STATE 452
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MOSS POINT SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 280300000592
Magnolia Middle School
4630 MAGNOLIA ST, MOSS POINT, MS 39563 · (228) 475-1429 · Jackson County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL359 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 40% of Mississippi public middle schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
359 students
DISTRICT 100% · STATE 80%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 117 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 120 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 122 | 34% |
Student demographics
45%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 46% · 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
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Moss Point School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
MAAP 2024-25 . % Proficient + AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
28.8%
MS avg 45.9% . -0.2pp since 2023
Math
32.9%
MS avg 52.8% . +0.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the MAAP, Mississippi's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Mississippi schools, those numbers are about 46 and 53. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
MAAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 28.8% | 32.9% |
| 2023-24 | 29.0% | 32.9% |
% 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
39.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.1%
based on MS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% 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 Magnolia Middle School
Magnolia Middle School's state test result (39.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Magnolia Middle School this school | 359 | 100.0% | 39.0% |
| Crystal Springs Middle School CRYSTAL SPRINGS | 365 | 100.0% | 34.8% |
| Laurel Middle School Laurel | 388 | 100.0% | 30.6% |
| Hazlehurst Middle School HAZLEHURST | 292 | 99.7% | 42.7% |
| Hattiesburg STEAM Academy Hattiesburg | 263 | 100.0% | 54.4% |
| Kirksey Middle School Jackson | 389 | 100.0% | 34.4% |
Matched among Mississippi middle 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 Magnolia Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Mississippi | In Jackson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.0% | #119 of 176 | #10 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 32.9% | #130 of 181 ▲ 15 | #10 of 10 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 28.8% | #127 of 181 ▼ 7 | #10 of 10 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 359 | #100 of 186 | #10 of 10 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.4:1 | #84 of 163 | #5 of 10 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 44.5% | #83 of 164 | #8 of 10 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #38 of 184 | #1 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.4% | #43 of 119 | #2 of 10 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
359
-47 (-12%) vs 2020
-54% since 1990-91, when it was 775
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
was 13.5:1
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 | 359 | 26.8 | 13.4:1 | 100% (359) |
| 2023-24 | 368 | 30.9 | 11.9:1 | 100% (368) |
| 2022-23 | 381 | 31.7 | 12.0:1 | 100% (381) |
| 2020-21 | 406 | 30 | 13.5:1 | 100% (406) |
| 2017-18 | 457 | 29.4 | 15.5:1 | 100% (457) |
| 2015-16 | 486 | 30 | 16.2:1 | 100% (486) |
| 2010-11 | 390 | 52 | 7.5:1 | 88% (342) |
| 2000-01 | 533 | 33 | 16.1:1 | 75% (402) |
| 1990-91 | 775 | 44 | 17.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Magnolia Middle School.
About Magnolia Middle School
Magnolia Middle School is a low-enrollment middle-grades school in MOSS POINT, Mississippi, one of the schools in Moss Point School District. There are 359 students enrolled, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts enrollment 21% below the 452-student average for middle schools in Mississippi.
District-wide, Moss Point School District has 4 schools and 1,611 students.
More than half of the students at Magnolia Middle School are Black (72%). The rest of enrollment is 16% White and 12% Hispanic. Census estimates put the Black share of Jackson County's population at about 19%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Magnolia Middle School scores 45%.
On staff are 26.8 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 13.4:1. That is in line with the 13.7:1 average for middle schools in Mississippi. Magnolia Middle School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 100%. The rate at public schools in Jackson County averages 59%, lower than here.
Magnolia Middle School holds a C+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 40% of Mississippi public middle schools.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 44.1% for Magnolia Middle School. The school posts 39.0%, 5.2 points below the prediction.
Census data for Jackson County show median household income comes to about $66,201, about 27% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. There are 46 public schools in the county, enrolling about 22,712, Magnolia Middle School among them.
Among nearby public schools, Moss Point High School is closest at about 0.4 miles. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Magnolia Middle School. Magnolia Middle School places 7th of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Federal data place Magnolia Middle School in the Suburb: Small locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.
The school's enrollment decreased 12% from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
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Jackson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
145,249
Census ACS
Median income
$66,201
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
27%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
46
22,712 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Moss Point School District
- Moss Point High SchoolHigh · 491 students
- Kreole Primary ElementaryElementary · 419 students
- Escatawpa Upper ElementaryElementary · 342 students
- MOSS POINT ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLCombined
- MOSS POINT CAREER & TECHNICAL EDUCAHigh
Other schools in MOSS POINT
- East Central High SchoolHigh · 777 students
- East Central Lower ElementaryElementary · 567 students
- East Central Upper ElementaryElementary · 566 students
- East Central Middle SchoolMiddle · 541 students
- Moss Point High SchoolHigh · 491 students
- Kreole Primary ElementaryElementary · 419 students
Other Magnolia Middle schools
4 other US public schools in 4 states are named Magnolia Middle. Magnolia Middle School is the 5th largest of the 5.
- Magnolia Middle SchoolMeridian, MS · 440 students
- Magnolia MiddleJoppa, MD · 689 students
- MAGNOLIA MIDDLE SCHOOLMAGNOLIA, AR · 492 students
- Magnolia Middle SchoolMagnolia, DE · 460 students
Nearby schools
- Moss Point High School0.4 mi · 491
- Escatawpa Upper Elementary2.0 mi · 342
- Lake Elem2.1 mi · 96
- Jackson County Exceptional2.2 mi · 44
- Kreole Primary Elementary2.5 mi · 419
- Jackson Elem3.0 mi · 193
Frequently asked questions
About Magnolia Middle SchoolHow many students attend Magnolia Middle School?
Magnolia Middle School enrolls approximately 359 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Magnolia Middle School serve?
Magnolia Middle School serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Magnolia Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Magnolia Middle School is approximately 13.4:1 (27 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Magnolia Middle School?
At Magnolia Middle School, the student body is approximately 16% White, 12% Hispanic, 72% Black, 1% Two or more.
What district is Magnolia Middle School in?
Magnolia Middle School is part of Moss Point School District.
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