McLaurin High School

Located at 130 Tiger Drive, in Florence, Mississippi, McLaurin High School is a modestly sized secondary school that works with 481 students (grades 7 through 12), operated by Rankin County School District. By comparison, Mississippi's public schools average about 651 students each, so McLaurin High School sits 26% leaner than that benchmark.

Rankin County School District comprises 27 schools with combined enrollment of 18,196 students; McLaurin High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, McLaurin High School lists that the largest single group is White, at 66% of enrollment. Other groups include 20% Black, 8% Hispanic, 6% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, McLaurin High School has 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.6:1. The state averages around 12.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 73% of students at McLaurin High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Rankin County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), McLaurin High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.6%, the actual is 64.7%, a residual of +5.1 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Rankin County indicate the typical household earns roughly $79,357 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. McLaurin High School is one of 34 public schools in Rankin County (combined enrollment of about 22,454 students).

McLaurin Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts McLaurin High School at 3rd of 4; the average score across the group is 66.1%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. McLaurin High School's enrollment has shrank 10% since 2018, when it stood at 532 (now 481). White enrollment moved from 74% to 66% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 8.6:1 today.

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