Taylorsville Attendance Center

Taylorsville Attendance Center is a mid-sized all-grades campus in TAYLORSVILLE, Mississippi, one of the schools within Smith County School District. The school instructs 572 students in grades pre-K through 12.

Taylorsville Attendance Center is one of 4 schools operated by Smith County School District, a district that caters to 2,538 students overall.

Demographically, Taylorsville Attendance Center records that the largest single group is Black, at 60% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 34% White, 2% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

On the resource side, The school lists 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Smith County (around 72%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Taylorsville Attendance Center sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 52.5%; actual is 39.3%, a gap of -13.2 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Smith County) reports that median household earnings sit near $60,916, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Taylorsville Attendance Center is one of 10 public schools in Smith County (combined enrollment of about 2,538 students).

The closest other public school is Mize Attendance Center, roughly 7.7 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Taylorsville Attendance Center at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 64.0%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Looking at the recent track record. Taylorsville Attendance Center's enrollment has shrank 21% since 2018, when it stood at 726 (now 572). White enrollment moved from 52% to 34% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 in 2025.

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