Richland High School

Richland High School, a middle-of-the-pack 9-12 campus in Richland, Mississippi, operated by Rankin County School District, educates 731 students, covering grades 7 through 12.

Within Rankin County School District, which oversees 27 schools and 18,196 students, Richland High School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Richland High School logs that the most-represented group is White (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 28% Black, 19% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Rankin County as a whole is about 71% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 71 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.6:1 average. Roughly 73% of students at Richland High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Rankin County (around 50%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Richland High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 59.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 58.4%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Rankin County) records that the typical household earns roughly $79,357 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Rankin County runs 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,454 students), of which Richland High School is one.

Richland Upper Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Richland High School.

Richland High School operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. Richland High School's enrollment has shrank 13% since 2018, when it stood at 838 (now 731). White enrollment moved from 65% to 44% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 in 2025.

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