McAdams Attendance Center

McAdams Attendance Center, an one-room-style secondary school in MCADAMS, Mississippi, overseen by Attala County Schools, caters to 167 students, covering grades 7 through 12. That puts it 74% leaner than the typical public school in Mississippi, which averages around 651 students.

Across the 4 schools in Attala County Schools (952 students total), McAdams Attendance Center accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, McAdams Attendance Center shows that 91% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest looks like 6% multiracial, 3% White. By comparison, Attala County as a whole is about 44% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.6:1, putting McAdams Attendance Center tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 98% of students at McAdams Attendance Center qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Attala County (around 87%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, McAdams Attendance Center performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.0%, the actual is 62.4%, a residual of +14.3 points.

In the broader community, census data for Attala County shows the typical household earns roughly $51,639 per year, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Attala County runs 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,925 students), of which McAdams Attendance Center is one.

Nearest neighbor: Long Creek Elementary School, around 4.6 miles off. 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 countryside setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 165 students in 2018 compared to 167 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 98% to 91% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.0:1 in 2018 to 7.0:1 today.

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