New Albany High School

Located at 201 Highway 15 North, in New Albany, Mississippi, New Albany High School is a mid-sized secondary school that enrolls 605 students (grades 9 through 12), part of NEW ALBANY PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

Across the 3 schools in NEW ALBANY PUBLIC SCHOOLS (2,149 students total), New Albany High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, New Albany High School lists that the largest single group is White at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school lists 26% Black, 19% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 77%.

On the resource side, On paper, New Albany High School has 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 53% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Union County (around 62%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), New Albany High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.1%, the actual is 70.6%, a residual of +1.5 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Union County indicate median household income runs about $55,505, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Union County runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,135 students), of which New Albany High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: New Albany Middle School, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, New Albany High School comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 73.1%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at New Albany High School has expanded 6%, going from 570 students in 2018 to 605 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 58% to 47% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 20.7:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

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