Northwest High School

Located at 5875 Hwy 25, in Flowood, Mississippi, Northwest High School is a sizable senior high that works with 1,855 students (grades 9 through 12), overseen by Rankin County School District. That puts it 185% larger than the typical public school in Mississippi, which averages around 651 students.

Rankin County School District runs 27 schools in total, collectively educating 18,196 students. Northwest High School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Northwest High School logs that 52% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 34% Black, 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 4% Asian. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 71%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 125 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.6:1 average. An estimated 32% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Rankin County (around 50%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Northwest High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 78.9%, the actual is 77.2%, a residual of -1.7 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Rankin County indicate the typical household earns roughly $79,357 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Rankin County runs 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,454 students), of which Northwest High School is one.

Northwest Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Northwest High School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Northwest High School has rose 10%, going from 1,692 students in 2018 to 1,855 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 64% to 52% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 in 2025.

On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.