Public school / Middle
Rod Paige Middle School
Monticello, Mississippi
- NCES ID
- 280249000480
- District
- Lawrence Co School Dist
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Rod Paige Middle School is a public middle school in Monticello, Mississippi, run by Lawrence Co School Dist. It enrols 259 students — the 71136th 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
259
Teachers
22.0
Students per teacher
11.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
98.8%
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 Lawrence 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.
- 1Lawrence County High School535 students
- 2Monticello Elementary School335 students
- 3Topeka Tilton Attendance Center313 students
- 4Rod Paige Middle School259 students
- 5New Hebron Attendance Center254 students
- Enrollment−43.9%
- Teachers−24.1%
- Students per teacher−11.3%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−1.0%
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