Pascagoula High

Pascagoula High, a well-populated senior high in Pascagoula, Mississippi, operated by Pascagoula-Gautier School District, enrolls 1,127 students, covering grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Mississippi's public schools average about 651 students each, so Pascagoula High sits 73% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 17 schools in Pascagoula-Gautier School District (6,579 students total), Pascagoula High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Pascagoula High logs that 47% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder is composed of 27% White, 22% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 95 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.6:1 average. Roughly 70% of students at Pascagoula High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Jackson County (around 59%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Pascagoula High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 61.4%; this one delivers 63.1%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Jackson County) records that the typical household earns roughly $66,201 per year, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Jackson County runs 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,712 students), of which Pascagoula High is one.

Central Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pascagoula High.

Pascagoula High operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pascagoula High has expanded 3%, going from 1,089 students in 2018 to 1,127 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 33% to 27%. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.

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