Shannon High School

Shannon High School operates as a tight-knit four-year high school in SHANNON, Mississippi, overseen by Lee County. Current enrollment sits at 529 students spanning grades 9 through 13.

Lee County runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 6,343 students. Shannon High School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Shannon High School logs that Black students make up the majority at 76%; the rest comes out to 17% White, 5% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 30% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 80% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Lee County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Shannon High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 56.7%; actual is 37.2%, a gap of -19.5 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Lee County put the typical household earns roughly $67,863 per year, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Lee County's 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,808 students), Shannon High School is one campus in the mix.

Shannon Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Shannon High School has fell 6%, going from 562 students in 2018 to 529 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 22% to 17%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 today.

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