Provine High School

Provine High School operates as a mid-tier high school in Jackson, Mississippi, operated by Jackson Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 791 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 22% above the state mean of about 651.

Within Jackson Public Schools, which oversees 35 schools and 16,870 students, Provine High School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Provine High School records that 96% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Hinds County as a whole is about 72% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 75 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.6:1, putting Provine High School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Hinds County runs at roughly 88%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Provine High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 47.2%; actual is 25.9%, a gap of -21.2 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Hinds County put the typical household earns roughly $49,402 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. Across Hinds County's 84 public schools (combined enrollment of about 32,870 students), Provine High School is one campus in the mix.

Pecan Park Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 31%: 1,141 students in 2018 compared to 791 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 today.

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