Ripley High School

Ripley High School is a four-year high school of small scale in Ripley, Mississippi, part of South Tippah School District, educateing 465 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 29% leaner than the typical public school in Mississippi, which averages around 651 students.

South Tippah School District runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,403 students. Ripley High School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Ripley High School shows that the most-represented group is White (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 25% Black, 19% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 76% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Ripley High School logs 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.1:1. The state averages about 12.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 77% of students at Ripley High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Ripley High School sits in the top 10% of Mississippi schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 57.8%; actual is 73.8%, +15.9 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Tippah County indicate median household income runs about $52,542, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Across Tippah County's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,623 students), Ripley High School is one campus in the mix.

Ripley Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Ripley High School. On composite proficiency, Ripley High School comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 65.1%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 7%: 499 students in 2018 compared to 465 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 11% to 19% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 today.

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