Moorhead Central School

Moorhead Central School is a cozy K-5 school in Moorhead, Mississippi, part of Sunflower County Consolidated School District. The school hosts 245 students in grades K through 8. By comparison, Mississippi's public schools average about 446 students each, so Moorhead Central School sits 45% leaner than that benchmark.

Moorhead Central School is one of 11 schools operated by Sunflower County Consolidated School District, a district that enrolls 2,807 students overall.

On demographics, Moorhead Central School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (93%); the rest breaks down as 6% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 73% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Moorhead Central School has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.9:1, putting Moorhead Central School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 100% of students at Moorhead Central School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Moorhead Central School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.1%, the actual is 33.3%, a residual of -10.8 points.

In the area at large, census data for Sunflower County shows the typical household earns roughly $39,956 per year, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 22%. In all, Sunflower County runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,807 students), of which Moorhead Central School is one.

The closest other public school is Rosser Early Learning Center, roughly 0.8 miles away. 5 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.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.