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Enrollment
484
Middle
DISTRICT 697 · STATE 452
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAMAR COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 280240001316
Sumrall Middle School
1217 Highway 42, Sumrall, MS 39482 · (601) 758-4416 · Lamar County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL484 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 81% of Mississippi public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
13.9:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.8:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
40%
194 students
DISTRICT 58% · STATE 80%
Community
1
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 | 154 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 172 | 36% |
| Grade 8 | 158 | 33% |
Student demographics
33%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · 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
58.2%
MS avg 45.9% . -5.0pp since 2023
Math
68.2%
MS avg 52.8% . -6.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the MAAP, Mississippi's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 68 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 7 points.
MAAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 58.2% | 68.2% |
| 2023-24 | 63.2% | 74.7% |
% 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
70.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
74.3%
based on MS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 74% 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 Sumrall Middle School
Sumrall Middle School's state test result (70.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sumrall Middle School this school | 484 | 40.1% | 70.0% |
| West Lauderdale Middle School Collinsville | 537 | 39.5% | 70.2% |
| Florence Middle School Florence | 556 | 45.3% | 63.7% |
| Caledonia Middle School CALEDONIA | 487 | 46.4% | 66.5% |
| Mooreville Middle School MOOREVILLE | 333 | 48.6% | 64.2% |
| Purvis Middle School Purvis | 447 | 51.9% | 59.5% |
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 Sumrall Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Mississippi |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 70.0% | #17 of 176 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 68.2% | #28 of 181 ▼ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 58.2% | #24 of 181 ▼ 13 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 484 | #59 of 186 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #100 of 163 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 33.1% | #112 of 164 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 40.1% | #175 of 184 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +6.8% | #19 of 34 |
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
484
-34 (-7%) vs 2020
+34% since 2010-11, when it was 362
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
was 16.7:1
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 | 484 | 34.8 | 13.9:1 | 40% (194) |
| 2023-24 | 482 | 33.6 | 14.3:1 | 38% (182) |
| 2022-23 | 464 | 33.9 | 13.7:1 | 99% (461) |
| 2020-21 | 518 | 31 | 16.7:1 | 99% (515) |
| 2017-18 | 453 | 28 | 16.2:1 | 39% (176) |
| 2015-16 | 441 | 27 | 16.3:1 | 45% (200) |
| 2010-11 | 362 | 22 | 16.4:1 | 52% (189) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sumrall Middle School.
About Sumrall Middle School
Sumrall Middle School is a middle school located in Sumrall, Mississippi, in Lamar County. Students in grades 6 through 8 attend the school, which enrolls 484 students.
Sumrall Middle School is one of the 15 schools that make up Lamar County School District (10,318 students in total).
The student body at Sumrall Middle School is 81% White. The rest of enrollment is 9% Black, 5% multiracial, and 4% Hispanic. Among all residents of Lamar County, the White share is about 71%. Sumrall Middle School's diversity index is 33%, against a US figure of 70%.
Its teaching staff equals 34.8 full-time positions, a ratio of 13.9:1. That matches the 13.7:1 average for middle schools in Mississippi fairly closely. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 40%. That is 15 points below the 55% average for public schools in Lamar County.
Measured against Mississippi public middle schools, Sumrall Middle School receives an A-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
In Mississippi, Sumrall Middle School is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 70.0% actual against a predicted 74.3%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Lamar County show that the median household income is $70,909, about 35% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. Besides Sumrall Middle School, Lamar County has 16 other public schools.
Sumrall High School is the public school closest to Sumrall Middle School, about 0.1 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is 2. On average proficiency, Sumrall Middle School is 4th of 9 nearby schools with test data.
By NCES locale, the school is Rural: Distant, or in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
Enrollment dropped 7% from its 2020-21 level of 518. The ratio was 16.7:1 in 2020-21 and 13.9:1 in 2024-25.
Community posts for Sumrall Middle School can cover enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Lamar County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
65,713
Census ACS
Median income
$70,909
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
17
10,318 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lamar County School District
- Oak Grove High SchoolHigh · 1,750 students
- Oak Grove Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,160 students
- Bellevue ElementaryElementary · 1,145 students
- Sumrall Elementary SchoolElementary · 960 students
- Longleaf ElementaryElementary · 787 students
- Oak Grove ElementaryElementary · 758 students
Other schools in Sumrall
- Sumrall Elementary SchoolElementary · 960 students
- Sumrall High SchoolHigh · 616 students
Nearby schools
- Sumrall High School0.1 mi · 616
- Sumrall Elementary School1.0 mi · 960
- Seminary Elementary10.1 mi · 420
- Seminary Middle10.1 mi · 365
- Seminary High10.1 mi · 382
- Bellevue Elementary10.3 mi · 1,145
Frequently asked questions
About Sumrall Middle SchoolHow large is Sumrall Middle School?
Sumrall Middle School enrolls approximately 484 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Sumrall Middle School serve?
Sumrall Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Sumrall Middle School?
Approximately 13.9:1 students per teacher at Sumrall Middle School.
How diverse is Sumrall Middle School?
Sumrall Middle School reports a student body of 81% White, 4% Hispanic, 9% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Sumrall Middle School?
Sumrall Middle School is overseen by Lamar County School District in Lamar County.
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