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What's something YAZOO CITY HIGH SCHOOL does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
531
High
DISTRICT 608 · STATE 651
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MS ACHIEVEMENT SD OF YAZOO CITY·NCES 280477000888
Yazoo City High School
1825 DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING DRIVE, YAZOO CITY, MS 39194 · (662) 746-2378 · Yazoo County
GRADES 09–12HIGH41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL531 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
19.0:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 30.2:1 · STATE 12.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
528 students
DISTRICT 99% · STATE 80%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within MS Achievement SD Of Yazoo City. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
MAAP 2023-24 . % Proficient + AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
14.6%
MS avg 45.9% . -1.3pp since 2022
Math
32.6%
MS avg 52.8% . +0.9pp since 2022
What this means: On the MAAP, Mississippi's statewide test, about 15 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 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 1 points since 2022, while math scores have held steady.
Source: MAAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of MS schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
31.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.4%
based on MS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 47% typical for Mississippi schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
531
-32 (-6%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
19.0:1
was 20.0:1
% White
0%
was 0%
% Hispanic
0%
was 0%
% Black
97%
was 99%
% Asian
0%
was 0%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About Yazoo City High School
As an intimate four-year high school in YAZOO CITY, Mississippi, Yazoo City High School educates 531 students from grades 9 through 12, overseen by MS Achievement SD Of Yazoo City.
Yazoo City High School is one of 3 schools operated by MS Achievement SD Of Yazoo City, a district that teaches 1,824 students overall.
On the student-mix side, Yazoo City High School records that 97% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 2% multiracial. By comparison, Yazoo County as a whole is about 58% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, Yazoo City High School reports 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.6:1 average. Roughly 99% of students at Yazoo City High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Yazoo City High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 47.4%; this one comes in at 31.4%, -16.0 points off the demographic line.
In the broader community, the surrounding county (Yazoo County) records that the typical household earns roughly $39,295 per year, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 22%. In all, Yazoo County runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,040 students), of which Yazoo City High School is one.
The closest other public school is McCoy Elementary School, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools.
The school occupies a low-density site.
Five-year trend. Yazoo City High School's enrollment has declined 6% since 2018, when it stood at 563 (now 531). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 19.0:1 today.
Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Yazoo City High School community share and discuss classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
Yazoo County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
24,835
Census ACS
Median income
$39,295
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
15%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
22%
Below federal line
Schools in county
10
3,040 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in MS Achievement SD Of Yazoo City
- McCoy Elementary SchoolElementary · 844 students
- Woolfolk Middle SchoolMiddle · 449 students
- ALTERNATIVE LEARNING CENTERCombined
- YAZOO CITY VOC COMPLEXHigh
Other schools in YAZOO CITY
- McCoy Elementary SchoolElementary · 844 students
- Woolfolk Middle SchoolMiddle · 449 students
- Yazoo County High SchoolHigh · 400 students
- Yazoo County Middle SchoolMiddle · 258 students
- ALTERNATIVE LEARNING CENTERCombined
- YAZOO CITY VOC COMPLEXHigh
Nearby schools
- McCoy Elementary School0.2 mi · 844
- Woolfolk Middle School1.4 mi · 449
- Yazoo County High School6.8 mi · 400
- Yazoo County Middle School6.9 mi · 258
- Linwood School16.1 mi · 178
- Bentonia Gibbs School16.3 mi · 380
Frequently asked questions
About Yazoo City High SchoolHow many students attend Yazoo City High School?
Yazoo City High School enrolls approximately 531 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does Yazoo City High School serve?
Yazoo City High School serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many students per teacher at Yazoo City High School?
Approximately 19.0:1 students per teacher at Yazoo City High School.
What is the student diversity at Yazoo City High School?
Student demographics at Yazoo City High School are roughly 0% Hispanic, 97% Black, 2% Two or more.
What district is Yazoo City High School in?
Yazoo City High School is part of MS Achievement SD Of Yazoo City.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.