Nanih Waiya Attendance Center

Nanih Waiya Attendance Center operates as a mid-sized multi-level school in Louisville, Mississippi, overseen by Louisville Municipal School District. Current enrollment sits at 517 students spanning grades K through 12.

Louisville Municipal School District runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 2,413 students. Nanih Waiya Attendance Center is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Nanih Waiya Attendance Center logs that 72% of the student body identifies as White; the rest consists of 15% Black, 6% multiracial, 4% Native American. By comparison, Winston County as a whole is about 50% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.8:1, putting Nanih Waiya Attendance Center higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 60% of students at Nanih Waiya Attendance Center qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Winston County's rate of about 74%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Nanih Waiya Attendance Center performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.1%, the actual is 63.3%, a residual of -2.8 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Winston County indicate median household income runs about $53,031, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 21%. In all, Winston County runs 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,413 students), of which Nanih Waiya Attendance Center is one.

Noxapater Attendance is the nearest neighboring public school, about 9.6 miles from this campus.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 12%: 589 students in 2018 compared to 517 in 2025.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.