Purvis High School

Set in Purvis, Mississippi, Purvis High School is a middle-of-the-pack high school, overseen by Lamar County School District. It enrolls 614 students across grades 9 through 13.

Lamar County School District comprises 15 schools with combined enrollment of 10,318 students; Purvis High School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Purvis High School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%). Beyond that, the school reports 10% Black, 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 71% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 12.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 50% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Purvis High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.7%, the actual is 72.2%, a residual of +1.5 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Lamar County) records that the typical household earns roughly $70,909 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Purvis High School is one of 17 public schools in Lamar County (combined enrollment of about 10,318 students).

Purvis Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Purvis High School.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 601 students in 2018 compared to 614 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 88% to 82%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Purvis High School community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.