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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the SCOTT CENTRAL ATTENDANCE CENTER administration to hear?
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Enrollment
856
Combined
DISTRICT 770 · STATE 527
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SCOTT COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 280390000748
Scott Central Attendance Center
2415 OLD JACKSON ROAD, FOREST, MS 39074 · (601) 469-4883 · Scott County
GRADES PK–12COMBINED43-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL856 STUDENTS
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This school has no state test results for 2023-24 or 2024-25 to grade, which is common for schools that end before third grade. How grades work
Student : Teacher
17.2:1
50 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.4:1 · STATE 11.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
853 students
DISTRICT 99% · STATE 80%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other combined schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 20 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 67 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 62 | 7% |
| Grade 2 | 62 | 7% |
| Grade 3 | 88 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 59 | 7% |
| Grade 5 | 53 | 6% |
| Grade 6 | 49 | 6% |
| Grade 7 | 69 | 8% |
| Grade 8 | 74 | 9% |
| Grade 9 | 75 | 9% |
| Grade 10 | 70 | 8% |
| Grade 11 | 57 | 7% |
| Grade 12 | 51 | 6% |
This year's kindergarten class (67) is 9% smaller than its 8th grade class (74).
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · 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
Test scores
MAAP 2024-25 . % Proficient + AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
39.8%
MS avg 45.9% . -3.0pp since 2023
Math
49.4%
MS avg 52.8% . -5.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the MAAP, Mississippi's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Mississippi schools, those numbers are about 46 and 53. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 6 points.
MAAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.8% | 49.4% |
| 2023-24 | 42.8% | 55.3% |
% 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
53.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.3%
based on MS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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 Scott Central Attendance Center
Scott Central Attendance Center's state test result (53.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scott Central Attendance Center this school | 856 | 99.6% | 53.9% |
| Taylorsville Attendance Center TAYLORSVILLE | 572 | 88.6% | 42.7% |
| Blue Mountain High School Blue Mountain | 295 | 92.2% | 67.8% |
| Wesson Attendance Center Wesson | 833 | 100.0% | 70.1% |
| Sebastopol Attendance Center SEBASTOPOL | 684 | 99.6% | 70.4% |
| Houlka Attendance Center HOULKA | 457 | 72.9% | 56.8% |
Matched among Mississippi K-12 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 Scott Central Attendance Center ranks
Among K-12 schools| Measure | This school | In Mississippi |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.9% | #26 of 29 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 49.4% | #26 of 30 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.8% | #26 of 30 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 856 | #3 of 34 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.2:1 | #27 of 30 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.0% | #2 of 30 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.6% | #3 of 29 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.1% | #13 of 20 |
Ranked against other public K-12 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
856
+22 (+3%) vs 2020
+14% since 1990-91, when it was 748
Student : Teacher
17.2:1
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 | 856 | 49.8 | 17.2:1 | 100% (853) |
| 2023-24 | 871 | 65 | 13.4:1 | 100% (871) |
| 2022-23 | 898 | 63.2 | 14.2:1 | 100% (898) |
| 2020-21 | 834 | 59 | 14.1:1 | 100% (831) |
| 2017-18 | 931 | 61.6 | 15.1:1 | 100% (928) |
| 2015-16 | 945 | 65 | 14.5:1 | 82% (775) |
| 2010-11 | 950 | 55 | 17.3:1 | 79% (751) |
| 2000-01 | 917 | 48 | 19.1:1 | 72% (657) |
| 1990-91 | 748 | 43 | 17.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Scott Central Attendance Center.
About Scott Central Attendance Center
In FOREST, Mississippi, part of Scott County, Scott Central Attendance Center is a school serving multiple grade levels. Its grade span covers pre-K through 12, with 856 students on the rolls. Across combined schools in Mississippi, the average enrollment is about 527.
Scott County School District counts 3,989 students in its 8 schools, and Scott Central Attendance Center is one of them.
The largest group at Scott Central Attendance Center is Black students, at 52%. Other groups include 30% White, 9% Hispanic, and 8% multiracial. By comparison, Scott County residents are about 34% Black. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 62%.
The school had 49.8 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 17.2:1. The gap from the 11.8:1 average for combined schools in Mississippi is 5.4 students per teacher. The school reported 100% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Scott Central Attendance Center falls in the middle 80% of Mississippi schools: 53.9% actual against 44.3% predicted.
In the surrounding county, Scott County, the median household earns about $48,786 a year, 14% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 17% of people live in poverty. Scott County has 12 public schools with about 5,627 students, including Scott Central Attendance Center.
Forest Elementary is about 5.8 miles from Scott Central Attendance Center, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, 5 other public schools are within ten miles. Scott Central Attendance Center places 5th of 9 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
NCES assigns Scott Central Attendance Center the locale Rural: Remote, meaning in rural territory far from an urban area.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 856, compared with 834 in 2020-21. There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (17.2:1) than in 2020-21 (14.1:1).
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Scott County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
27,718
Census ACS
Median income
$48,786
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
14%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
17%
Below federal line
Schools in county
12
5,627 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Scott County School District
- Morton Elementary SchoolElementary · 686 students
- Sebastopol Attendance CenterCombined · 684 students
- Bettye Mae Jack Middle SchoolMiddle · 486 students
- Morton High SchoolHigh · 476 students
- Lake Elementary SchoolElementary · 333 students
- Lake Middle SchoolMiddle · 237 students
Other schools in FOREST
- Forest ElementaryElementary · 740 students
- Hawkins Middle SchoolMiddle · 460 students
- Forest High SchoolHigh · 438 students
- FOREST SCOTT CO VOC TECH CENTERHigh
Nearby schools
- Forest Elementary5.8 mi · 740
- Forest High School5.9 mi · 438
- Hawkins Middle School6.6 mi · 460
- Lake Middle School7.2 mi · 237
- Leake County High School9.9 mi · 266
- Sebastopol Attendance Center11.1 mi · 684
Frequently asked questions
About Scott Central Attendance CenterWhat is the total enrollment at Scott Central Attendance Center?
Scott Central Attendance Center enrolls approximately 856 students in grades PK-12.
Is Scott Central Attendance Center an elementary, middle, or high school?
Scott Central Attendance Center is a combined-grade school covering grades PK-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Scott Central Attendance Center?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Scott Central Attendance Center is approximately 17.2:1 (50 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Scott Central Attendance Center?
Scott Central Attendance Center reports a student body of 30% White, 9% Hispanic, 52% Black, 0% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is Scott Central Attendance Center public or private?
Scott Central Attendance Center is a public K-12 school, overseen by Scott County School District.
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