North Panola Middle School

As a compact 6-8 campus in Como, Mississippi, North Panola Middle School works with 243 students from grades 6 through 8, part of North Panola. By comparison, Mississippi's public schools average about 452 students each, so North Panola Middle School sits 46% below that benchmark.

North Panola Middle School is one of 4 schools operated by North Panola, a district that hosts 1,103 students overall.

On the student-mix side, North Panola Middle School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (85%). Beyond that, the school logs 14% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting North Panola Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Panola County runs at roughly 88%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, North Panola Middle School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 44.7%; this one comes in at 26.1%, -18.6 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, Panola County reports that median household income runs about $45,945, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 18%. Across Panola County's 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,323 students), North Panola Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Como Primary School, around 0.1 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

North Panola Middle School operates from a rural location.

Over the past 7-year window. North Panola Middle School's enrollment has edged down 26% since 2018, when it stood at 329 (now 243). The Black share of enrollment declined from 95% to 85% over that span.

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