Columbus Middle School

As a mid-tier intermediate school in Columbus, Mississippi, Columbus Middle School teaches 597 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within Columbus Municipal School District. Enrollment runs roughly 32% above the state mean of about 452.

Columbus Municipal School District runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 3,011 students. Columbus Middle School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Columbus Middle School logs that 93% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 2% Hispanic, 2% White, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Columbus Middle School has 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.6:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Lowndes County (around 75%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Lowndes County indicate the typical household earns roughly $53,812 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Lowndes County runs 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,512 students), of which Columbus Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Cook Elementary School, around 3.1 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Columbus Middle School's enrollment has declined 31% since 2018, when it stood at 863 (now 597). Class-load math has fell: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 in 2025.

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