Natchez Early College @ Co-Lin

As an one-room-style high school in Natchez, Mississippi, Natchez Early College @ Co-Lin enrolls 174 students from grades 9 through 12, operated by Natchez-Adams School District. By comparison, Mississippi's public schools average about 651 students each, so Natchez Early College @ Co-Lin sits 73% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Natchez-Adams School District, which oversees 6 schools and 2,554 students, Natchez Early College @ Co-Lin is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Natchez Early College @ Co-Lin logs that 84% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest looks like 9% White, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Adams County as a whole is about 56% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Natchez Early College @ Co-Lin lists 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.6:1 average. Roughly 100% of students at Natchez Early College @ Co-Lin qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Natchez Early College @ Co-Lin ranks in the top 10% of Mississippi public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 44.1%; Natchez Early College @ Co-Lin posts 61.8%, +17.7 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Adams County put the typical household earns roughly $43,644 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 20%. Across Adams County's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,714 students), Natchez Early College @ Co-Lin is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Instant Impact Global Prep, roughly 1.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Natchez Early College @ Co-Lin comes 1st of 4 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 31.4%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 11%: 157 students in 2018 compared to 174 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 91% to 84%.

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