Purvis Middle School

As a mid-sized junior high in Purvis, Mississippi, Purvis Middle School hosts 447 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within Lamar County School District.

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

On the student-mix side, Purvis Middle School records that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 11% Black, 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Lamar County as a whole is about 71% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Purvis Middle School logs 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. About 52% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

In the surrounding community, census data for Lamar County shows the typical household earns roughly $70,909 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Lamar County's 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,318 students), Purvis Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Purvis High 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 Middle School.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 12%: 399 students in 2018 compared to 447 in 2025.

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