Ripley Middle School

Ripley Middle School is a middle school of middle-of-the-pack scale in Ripley, Mississippi, run under South Tippah School District, educateing 459 students in grades 5 through 8.

South Tippah School District comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,403 students; Ripley Middle School is among them.

Demographically, Ripley Middle School shows that the most-represented group is White (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 22% Black, 18% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Tippah County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Roughly 78% of students at Ripley Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

In the broader community, census data for Tippah County shows the typical household earns roughly $52,542 per year, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Ripley High School, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools.

Ripley Middle School operates from a rural location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Ripley Middle School's enrollment has shrank 20% since 2018, when it stood at 571 (now 459). Hispanic enrollment moved from 10% to 18% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 in 2025.

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