Public school / High
Desoto Central High School
Southaven, Mississippi
- NCES ID
- 280132001569
- District
- Desoto Co School Dist
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Desoto Central High School is a public high school in Southaven, Mississippi, run by Desoto Co School Dist. It enrols 1,995 students — the 1826th largest of 1,057 public schools in Mississippi.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
1,995
Teachers
105.0
Students per teacher
19.0
Free or reduced-price lunch
99.8%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Desoto Co School Dist
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Desoto Central High School1,995 students
- 2Southaven High School1,850 students
- 3Desoto Central Middle School1,468 students
- 4Southaven Middle School1,456 students
- 5Hernando High School1,419 students
- 6Horn Lake High1,361 students
- 7Lewisburg High School1,275 students
- 8Hernando Middle School1,150 students
- Enrollment+331.8%
- Teachers+262.1%
- Students per teacher+42.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch0.0%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory