West Lowndes High School

Located at 644 SOUTH FRONTAGE ROAD, in COLUMBUS, Mississippi, West Lowndes High School is a micro-enrollment high school that serves 206 students (grades 7 through 12), one of the schools within Lowndes County School District. Compared to the state average of about 651 students per school, that is 68% smaller than typical.

Within Lowndes County School District, which oversees 8 schools and 5,261 students, West Lowndes High School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, West Lowndes High School records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (95%). Other groups include 3% White. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.6:1 average. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Lowndes County (around 75%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, West Lowndes High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.9%, the actual is 43.4%, a residual of -4.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Lowndes County indicate the typical household earns roughly $53,812 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across Lowndes County's 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,512 students), West Lowndes High School is one campus in the mix.

Franklin Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around West Lowndes High School.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at West Lowndes High School has fell 8%, going from 223 students in 2018 to 206 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 9.2:1 in 2018 to 7.7:1 today.

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