Yazoo County High School

Located at 191 PANTHER DRIVE, in YAZOO CITY, Mississippi, Yazoo County High School is a compact four-year high school that instructs 400 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within Yazoo County School District. That puts it 39% leaner than the typical public school in Mississippi, which averages around 651 students.

Yazoo County High School is one of 4 schools operated by Yazoo County School District, a district that serves 1,216 students overall.

On demographics, Yazoo County High School shows that 59% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder comes out to 32% White, 5% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Yazoo County High School shows 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.6:1, putting Yazoo County High School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 99% of students at Yazoo County High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Yazoo County High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.5%, the actual is 50.2%, a residual of +2.7 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Yazoo County) reports that median household earnings sit near $39,295, 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 22% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Yazoo County runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,040 students), of which Yazoo County High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Yazoo County Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 5 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Yazoo County High School has declined 14%, going from 467 students in 2018 to 400 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 42% to 32% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 in 2025.

On this page, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.