Enrollment
190
Middle
DISTRICT 360 · STATE 452
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LEE COUNTY·NCES 280255001325
Shannon Middle School
232 Cherry Street, Shannon, MS 38868 · (662) 767-3986 · Lee County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL190 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 25% of Mississippi public middle schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
9.2:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.8:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
87%
166 students
DISTRICT 68% · STATE 80%
Community
0
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 6 | 50 | 26% |
| Grade 7 | 73 | 38% |
| Grade 8 | 67 | 35% |
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 54% · 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
33.5%
MS avg 45.9% . +1.6pp since 2023
Math
28.2%
MS avg 52.8% . -10.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the MAAP, Mississippi's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 10 points.
MAAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 33.5% | 28.2% |
| 2023-24 | 31.9% | 38.2% |
% 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
37.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.5%
based on MS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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 Shannon Middle School
Shannon Middle School's state test result (37.6% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shannon Middle School this school | 190 | 87.4% | 37.6% |
| Rod Paige Middle School Monticello | 191 | 82.2% | 57.7% |
| Magee Middle School Magee | 260 | 94.2% | 33.0% |
| Tylertown Elementary School Tylertown | 234 | 82.5% | 41.0% |
| Quitman Junior High School Quitman | 288 | 82.3% | 33.4% |
| EAST MARION MIDDLE SCHOOL Columbia | 143 | 97.9% | N/A |
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 Shannon Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Mississippi | In Lee County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.6% | #124 of 176 | #6 of 7 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.2% | #147 of 181 ▼ 21 | #6 of 7 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 33.5% | #107 of 181 ▲ 4 | #5 of 7 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 190 | #170 of 186 | #7 of 7 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 87.4% | #93 of 184 | #2 of 7 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -29.6% | #23 of 119 | N/A |
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
190
-56 (-23%) vs 2020
-26% since 2010-11, when it was 256
Student : Teacher
9.2:1
was 12.9:1
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 | 190 | 20.7 | 9.2:1 | 87% (166) |
| 2023-24 | 201 | 20.4 | 9.8:1 | 56% (113) |
| 2022-23 | 202 | 19.7 | 10.3:1 | 100% (202) |
| 2020-21 | 246 | 19 | 12.9:1 | 99% (243) |
| 2017-18 | 270 | 21.6 | 12.5:1 | 99% (267) |
| 2015-16 | 261 | 21 | 12.4:1 | 89% (231) |
| 2010-11 | 256 | 23 | 11.1:1 | 80% (204) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Shannon Middle School.
About Shannon Middle School
Shannon Middle School is a middle school in Shannon, Mississippi, and it is part of Lee County. The latest federal count shows 190 students in grades 6 through 8. Against the 452-student average for middle schools in Mississippi, enrollment here is 58% lower.
Lee County counts 6,343 students in its 13 schools, and Shannon Middle School is one of them.
Roughly 61% of students at Shannon Middle School are Black. Other groups make up 30% White, 6% Hispanic, and 3% multiracial. County-wide, 30% of Lee County residents are Black. Pick two students at random and there is a 53% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Shannon Middle School's 20.7 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 9.2:1. On average, middle schools in Mississippi have 13.7:1, compared with 9.2:1 here. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 87%. That is 21 points above the 66% average for public schools in Lee County.
Measured against Mississippi public middle schools, Shannon Middle School receives a C. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 50.5% at Shannon Middle School; the school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 37.6%.
Shannon Middle School is located in Lee County, where the median household income is $67,863, about 29% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 11%. Besides Shannon Middle School, Lee County has 33 other public schools.
The school nearest to Shannon Middle School is Shannon High School, at a distance of less than a tenth of a mile. Other public schools within five miles number 3. On average proficiency, Shannon Middle School is 7th of 9 nearby schools with test data.
By NCES locale, the school is Rural: Fringe, or in rural territory close to an urban area.
Enrollment has fallen by 56 students since 2020-21, to 190. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 9.2:1, from 12.9:1.
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Lee County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
83,034
Census ACS
Median income
$67,863
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
29%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
34
14,808 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lee County
- Saltillo High SchoolHigh · 939 students
- Mooreville Elementary SchoolElementary · 722 students
- Saltillo Primary SchoolElementary · 704 students
- Saltillo Elementary SchoolElementary · 696 students
- Guntown Middle SchoolMiddle · 674 students
- Shannon High SchoolHigh · 529 students
Other schools in Shannon
- Shannon High SchoolHigh · 529 students
- Shannon Elementary SchoolElementary · 257 students
- Shannon Primary SchoolElementary · 249 students
Nearby schools
- Shannon High School0.1 mi · 529
- Shannon Elementary School0.4 mi · 257
- Shannon Primary School1.8 mi · 249
- Verona Elementary School5.4 mi · 364
- Nettleton Primary School5.5 mi · 220
- Nettleton High School5.8 mi · 316
Frequently asked questions
About Shannon Middle SchoolHow large is Shannon Middle School?
Shannon Middle School enrolls approximately 190 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Shannon Middle School serve?
Shannon Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Shannon Middle School?
Approximately 9.2:1 students per teacher at Shannon Middle School.
What is the student diversity at Shannon Middle School?
Student demographics at Shannon Middle School are roughly 30% White, 6% Hispanic, 61% Black, 3% Two or more.
Is Shannon Middle School public or private?
Shannon Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Lee County.
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