North Panola High School

Located at 500 HWY 51 North, in SARDIS, Mississippi, North Panola High School is a tight-knit 9-12 campus that teaches 329 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by North Panola. Compared to the state average of about 651 students per school, that is 49% leaner than typical.

North Panola High School is one of 4 schools operated by North Panola, a district that caters to 1,103 students overall.

On the student-mix side, North Panola High School records that 86% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder reads as 13% multiracial. By comparison, Panola County as a whole is about 48% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.6:1 average. Roughly 99% of students at North Panola High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Panola County runs at roughly 88%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, North Panola High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 47.6%; this one delivers 37.8%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Panola County indicate median household earnings sit near $45,945, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 18%. In all, Panola County runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,323 students), of which North Panola High School is one.

Green Hill Intermediate is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. North Panola High School's enrollment has fell 13% since 2018, when it stood at 380 (now 329). The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 98% to 86% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 today.

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