Vardaman Attendance Center

Set in Vardaman, Mississippi, Vardaman Attendance Center is a medium-sized unified-grade school, one of the schools within Calhoun County School District. It educates 624 students across grades pre-K through 12.

Calhoun County School District runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,989 students. Vardaman Attendance Center is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Vardaman Attendance Center lists that the largest single group is White at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 37% Hispanic, 12% Black, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 64% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 11.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 75% of students at Vardaman Attendance Center qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Vardaman Attendance Center performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.0%, the actual is 62.8%, a residual of +3.8 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Calhoun County indicate median household income runs about $43,125, about 12% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Vardaman Attendance Center is one of 8 public schools in Calhoun County (combined enrollment of about 1,989 students).

Calhoun City Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 7.9 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Vardaman Attendance Center comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 55.8%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Inside the community feed, the feed for Vardaman Attendance Center typically covers school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.