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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / High

New Hope High School

Columbus, Mississippi

NCES ID
280273001127
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

New Hope High School is a public high school in Columbus, Mississippi, run by Lowndes Co School Dist. It enrols 807 students — the 13957th largest of 1,057 public schools in Mississippi.

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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

807students

13957th nationally, tied with 46

Teachers

54.0FTE

12575th nationally, tied with 527

Students per teacher

14.9students

46570th nationally, tied with 935

Free or reduced-price lunch

99.6%percent

4096th nationally, tied with 227

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.

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Within Lowndes 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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1New Hope Elementary School1,151 students
  2. 2Caledonia Elementary School1,060 students
  3. 3New Hope High School807 students
  4. 4Caledonia High School652 students
  5. 5New Hope Middle School613 students
  6. 6Caledonia Middle School498 students
  7. 7West Lowndes High School246 students
  8. 8West Lowndes Elementary234 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Mississippi median across 1,057 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment+74.7%
  • Teachers+86.2%
  • Students per teacher+12.0%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−0.2%
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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
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.