New Site High School

New Site High School is a very small four-year high school in New Site, Mississippi, one of the schools within Prentiss County School District. The school works with 239 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 63% smaller than the typical public school in Mississippi, which averages around 651 students.

Prentiss County School District runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 2,176 students. New Site High School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, New Site High School records that 98% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.2:1. The state averages around 12.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 68% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, New Site High School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 62.0%; this one delivers 78.3%, a residual of +16.3 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Prentiss County indicate median household earnings sit near $49,724, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. New Site High School is one of 13 public schools in Prentiss County (combined enrollment of about 3,973 students).

Hills Chapel School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 5.3 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 2 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), New Site High School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 68.4%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Five-year trend. New Site High School's enrollment has declined 13% since 2018, when it stood at 275 (now 239). Class-load math has fell: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for New Site High School typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.