Mantachie Attendance Center

Mantachie Attendance Center, a well-populated all-grades campus in MANTACHIE, Mississippi, part of Itawamba County, works with 926 students, covering grades K through 12. Compared to the state average of about 527 students per school, that is 76% above typical.

Within Itawamba County, which oversees 6 schools and 3,275 students, Mantachie Attendance Center is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mantachie Attendance Center records that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 76 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 11.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 71% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Mantachie Attendance Center performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.0%, the actual is 58.1%, a residual of -2.8 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Itawamba County indicate the typical household earns roughly $55,546 per year, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Mantachie Attendance Center is one of 8 public schools in Itawamba County (combined enrollment of about 3,275 students).

The closest other public school is Dorsey Attendance Center, roughly 5.6 miles away. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Mantachie Attendance Center's enrollment has edged down 14% since 2018, when it stood at 1,081 (now 926). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.

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