Moss Point High School

Moss Point High School operates as a close-knit high school in MOSS POINT, Mississippi, overseen by Moss Point School District. Current enrollment sits at 491 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 25% below the state mean of about 651.

Moss Point School District comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,611 students; Moss Point High School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Moss Point High School logs that 72% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 15% White, 11% Hispanic. By comparison, Jackson County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.4:1. The state averages around 12.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 100% of students at Moss Point High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Jackson County's rate of about 59%.

With demographic context factored in, Moss Point High School sits in the top 10% of Mississippi schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 47.2%; actual is 61.9%, +14.8 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the broader community, census data for Jackson County shows median household earnings sit near $66,201, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Jackson County's 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,712 students), Moss Point High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Magnolia Middle School, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 18%: 596 students in 2018 compared to 491 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 3% to 11% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 today.

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