Enrollment
258
Middle
DISTRICT 304 · STATE 452
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·YAZOO COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 280480001581
Yazoo County Middle School
116 PANTHER DRIVE, YAZOO CITY, MS 39194 · (662) 746-1616 · Yazoo County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL258 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 29% of Mississippi public middle schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Mississippi public middle schools
Student : Teacher
10.2:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.8:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
255 students
DISTRICT 99% · STATE 80%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 75 | 29% |
| Grade 7 | 85 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 98 | 38% |
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 57% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Yazoo County Middle School→Yazoo County High School
Based on grade levels within Yazoo County School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
MAAP 2024-25 . % Proficient + AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
24.7%
MS avg 45.9% . +2.4pp since 2023
Math
33.1%
MS avg 52.8% . -11.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the MAAP, Mississippi's statewide test, about 25 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 up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 12 points.
MAAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 24.7% | 33.1% |
| 2023-24 | 22.3% | 44.7% |
% Proficient + Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: MAAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
35.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.7%
based on MS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% typical for Mississippi schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Mississippi's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Yazoo County Middle School
Yazoo County Middle School's state test result (35.4% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yazoo County Middle School this school | 258 | 98.8% | 35.4% |
| Magee Middle School Magee | 260 | 94.2% | 33.0% |
| Lake Middle School LAKE | 237 | 98.7% | 59.8% |
| Jeff Davis County Middle School Prentiss | 262 | 98.9% | 41.3% |
| Warren Central Junior High VICKSBURG | 525 | 100.0% | 43.4% |
| Cleveland Central Middle School CLEVELAND | 423 | 99.5% | 32.8% |
Matched among Mississippi middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Yazoo County Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Mississippi |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 35.4% | #134 of 176 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 33.1% | #129 of 181 ▼ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 24.7% | #141 of 181 ▲ 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 258 | #144 of 186 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.2:1 | #6 of 163 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.8% | #47 of 164 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 98.8% | #72 of 184 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -29.3% | #25 of 119 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
258
-126 (-33%) vs 2020
+2% since 2010-11, when it was 252
Student : Teacher
10.2:1
was 17.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 258 | 25.3 | 10.2:1 | 99% (255) |
| 2023-24 | 275 | 25.5 | 10.8:1 | 100% (275) |
| 2022-23 | 299 | 27.4 | 10.9:1 | 100% (299) |
| 2020-21 | 384 | 22 | 17.4:1 | 100% (384) |
| 2017-18 | 365 | 23.4 | 15.6:1 | 100% (365) |
| 2015-16 | 360 | 25 | 14.4:1 | 88% (318) |
| 2010-11 | 252 | 20 | 12.6:1 | 85% (214) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Yazoo County Middle School.
About Yazoo County Middle School
Yazoo County Middle School is a small middle school in YAZOO CITY, Mississippi, (ZIP code 39194). It reported 258 students in grades 6 through 8 in 2024-25. That compares with an average of about 452 students for middle schools in Mississippi.
Yazoo County Middle School is one of 4 schools in Yazoo County School District, which enrolls 1,216 students in total.
At Yazoo County Middle School, 53% of students are Black. Smaller groups are 38% White, 4% multiracial, and 2% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Yazoo County Middle School scores 57%.
Yazoo County Middle School has 25.3 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.2:1. The school's 10.2:1 compares with an average of 13.7:1 for middle schools in Mississippi. The school has 99% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Yazoo County average a similar 99%.
Among Mississippi public middle schools, Yazoo County Middle School outscored 29%, which works out to a C on the allk12 Grade.
A school with Yazoo County Middle School's lunch-eligibility share in Mississippi is predicted to score 44.7%. Yazoo County Middle School scores 35.4%, 9.3 points below that line.
The school is in Yazoo County, where the median household earns about $39,295 a year, about 15% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 22%. Yazoo County Middle School shares Yazoo County with 9 other public schools.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Yazoo County High School, is less than a tenth of a mile. There are 5 other public schools within ten miles. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, Yazoo County Middle School ranks 6th on average proficiency.
In the federal locale system, Yazoo County Middle School is coded Rural: Distant, for schools in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 258, down from 384 in 2020-21. Students per teacher dropped from 17.4 in 2020-21 to 10.2 in 2024-25.
On allk12, people connected to Yazoo County Middle School can post about athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
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 Yazoo County School District
- Yazoo County High SchoolHigh · 400 students
- Bentonia Gibbs SchoolElementary · 380 students
- Linwood SchoolElementary · 178 students
Other schools in YAZOO CITY
- McCoy Elementary SchoolElementary · 844 students
- Yazoo City High SchoolHigh · 531 students
- Woolfolk Middle SchoolMiddle · 449 students
- Yazoo County High SchoolHigh · 400 students
- ALTERNATIVE LEARNING CENTERCombined
- YAZOO CITY VOC COMPLEXHigh
Nearby schools
- Yazoo County High School0.1 mi · 400
- Woolfolk Middle School5.5 mi · 449
- Yazoo City High School6.9 mi · 531
- McCoy Elementary School6.9 mi · 844
- Bentonia Gibbs School9.9 mi · 380
- Linwood School13.0 mi · 178
Frequently asked questions
About Yazoo County Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Yazoo County Middle School?
Yazoo County Middle School enrolls approximately 258 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Yazoo County Middle School serve?
Yazoo County Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Yazoo County Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Yazoo County Middle School is approximately 10.2:1 (25 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Yazoo County Middle School?
Yazoo County Middle School reports a student body of 38% White, 2% Hispanic, 53% Black, 2% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Yazoo County Middle School?
Yazoo County Middle School is overseen by Yazoo County School District in Yazoo County.
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