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Enrollment
416
Middle
DISTRICT 446 · STATE 452
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BOONEVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 280082001329
R.H. Long Booneville Middle School
300 A W George E. Allen, Booneville, MS 38829 · (662) 728-5843 · Prentiss County
GRADES 05–08MIDDLE33-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL416 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 69% of Mississippi public middle schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Mississippi public middle schools
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.1:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
66%
274 students
DISTRICT 66% · STATE 80%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 5 | 92 | 22% |
| Grade 6 | 90 | 22% |
| Grade 7 | 128 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 106 | 25% |
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
R.H. Long Booneville Middle School→Booneville High School
Based on grade levels within Booneville School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
MAAP 2024-25 . % Proficient + AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
57.5%
MS avg 45.9% . +11.0pp since 2023
Math
60.9%
MS avg 52.8% . +3.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the MAAP, Mississippi's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 61 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Mississippi schools, those numbers are about 46 and 53. Reading and writing scores are up about 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
MAAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 57.5% | 60.9% |
| 2023-24 | 46.5% | 57.8% |
% Proficient + Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: MAAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
60.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.3%
based on MS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% typical for Mississippi schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Mississippi's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like R.H. Long Booneville Middle School
R.H. Long Booneville Middle School's state test result (60.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| R.H. Long Booneville Middle School this school | 416 | 65.9% | 60.2% |
| Pass Christian Middle School Pass Christian | 384 | 64.1% | 66.7% |
| Southeast Middle School Meridian | 371 | 71.2% | 65.0% |
| Neshoba Central Middle School Philadelphia | 645 | 70.2% | 72.0% |
| Amory Middle School Amory | 348 | 70.1% | 61.5% |
| George County Middle School LUCEDALE | 618 | 67.3% | 47.9% |
Matched among Mississippi middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where R.H. Long Booneville Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Mississippi |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.2% | #51 of 176 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 60.9% | #49 of 181 ▲ 27 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 57.5% | #27 of 181 ▲ 33 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 416 | #79 of 186 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.9:1 | #125 of 163 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.6% | #71 of 164 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 65.9% | #140 of 184 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.2% | #34 of 34 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
416
+7 (+2%) vs 2020
0% since 2010-11, when it was 417
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
was 14.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 416 | 27.9 | 14.9:1 | 66% (274) |
| 2023-24 | 410 | 31.8 | 12.9:1 | 57% (234) |
| 2022-23 | 420 | 30.3 | 13.9:1 | 99% (417) |
| 2020-21 | 409 | 29 | 14.1:1 | 99% (406) |
| 2017-18 | 415 | 27 | 15.4:1 | 48% (201) |
| 2015-16 | 404 | 29 | 13.9:1 | 54% (218) |
| 2010-11 | 417 | 27 | 15.4:1 | 45% (189) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for R.H. Long Booneville Middle School.
About R.H. Long Booneville Middle School
R.H. Long Booneville Middle School is a middle-grades school in Booneville, Mississippi, according to federal school records. The school covers grades 5 through 8 and reported 416 students in 2024-25.
Booneville School District is responsible for 3 schools, R.H. Long Booneville Middle School included, with 1,337 students in all.
Of every 100 students at R.H. Long Booneville Middle School, about 67 are White. After that, the student body is 20% Black, 9% multiracial, and 3% Hispanic. Among all residents of Prentiss County, the White share is about 80%. The diversity index for R.H. Long Booneville Middle School is 51%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school lists 27.9 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.9:1. The average for middle schools in Mississippi, 13.7:1, is lower. A total of 274 students, or 66%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Among Mississippi public middle schools, R.H. Long Booneville Middle School outscored 69%, which works out to a B+ on the allk12 Grade.
The model predicts 61.3% for a school in Mississippi with R.H. Long Booneville Middle School's free or reduced-price lunch share. R.H. Long Booneville Middle School posts 60.2%.
Prentiss County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $49,724 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 20% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 14%. Public schools in Prentiss County number 13, with about 3,973 students.
Booneville High School is the nearest public school to R.H. Long Booneville Middle School, less than a tenth of a mile away. Counting only straight-line distance, 3 other public schools are within five miles. Among its closest neighbors with test data, R.H. Long Booneville Middle School is 7th of 9 on proficiency.
The NCES locale for R.H. Long Booneville Middle School is Town: Remote, which covers schools in a town far from an urbanized area.
Enrollment has been fairly stable: 409 in 2020-21 and 416 in 2024-25.
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Prentiss County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
25,184
Census ACS
Median income
$49,724
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
20%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
14%
Below federal line
Schools in county
13
3,973 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Booneville School District
- Anderson Elementary SchoolElementary · 551 students
- Booneville High SchoolHigh · 370 students
- NORTHEAST MS REGIONAL ALTERNATIVEHigh
Other schools in Booneville
- Wheeler High SchoolCombined · 577 students
- Anderson Elementary SchoolElementary · 551 students
- Hills Chapel SchoolElementary · 398 students
- Thrasher High SchoolCombined · 387 students
- Booneville High SchoolHigh · 370 students
- Jumpertown SchoolCombined · 305 students
Nearby schools
- Booneville High School0.0 mi · 370
- Anderson Elementary School1.1 mi · 551
- Thrasher High School3.8 mi · 387
- Jumpertown School6.4 mi · 305
- Wheeler High School6.6 mi · 577
- Hills Chapel School6.9 mi · 398
Frequently asked questions
About R.H. Long Booneville Middle SchoolHow many students attend R.H. Long Booneville Middle School?
R.H. Long Booneville Middle School enrolls approximately 416 students in grades 05-08.
What age range does R.H. Long Booneville Middle School serve?
R.H. Long Booneville Middle School serves students from grade 05 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at R.H. Long Booneville Middle School?
Approximately 14.9:1 students per teacher at R.H. Long Booneville Middle School.
How diverse is R.H. Long Booneville Middle School?
R.H. Long Booneville Middle School reports a student body of 67% White, 3% Hispanic, 20% Black, 1% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is R.H. Long Booneville Middle School public or private?
R.H. Long Booneville Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Booneville School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.