Potts Camp High School (5-12), Potts Camp MS

Original Research by School Decision on Potts Camp High School (5-12)

Potts Camp High School sits at the junction of a very small rural town in northeastern Marshall County, Mississippi. The school serves grades five through twelve, an unusually wide span that pulls middle-grade students and high-school students under one roof on Church Avenue. It is part of the Marshall County School District, a traditional public district, and it is neither a charter nor a magnet school. The town of Potts Camp itself is compact, almost entirely residential, with limited commercial activity and a population that has been declining over recent census cycles. Interstate 22 runs along the northern edge of town, and the county seat, Holly Springs, is a short drive northwest, offering broader civic amenities that Potts Camp itself lacks.

The student body is small for a school covering eight grade levels. Every student in the building qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, which reflects the economic conditions of the surrounding community rather than any selective admission policy. The enrollment is majority white, with a substantial Black minority and smaller Hispanic and multiracial presences. Data on students with individualized education programs and English learners was not reported, so those population shares are unknown. The school's setting means most students know each other across grade levels, and the campus is woven directly into the town fabric rather than sitting on a separated campus. Mary Reid School handles the youngest grades in town, and the high school building shares its address with the middle-grade program, so the campus functions as a community anchor in a place with few other civic institutions.

On Mississippi's MAAP assessments for the 2024-25 school year, the school's results are mixed and generally below what one would hope to see. In English language arts, proficiency is strongest in fifth grade, dips through sixth and seventh, and falls to a low point in eighth grade. Math follows an uneven pattern: sixth grade is the weakest, seventh grade is the strongest by a wide margin, and eighth grade sits well below seventh. Science results in the tested grades are comparatively solid, with fifth-grade proficiency matching the ELA figure and eighth-grade science holding above the math and ELA rates for that grade. The seventh-grade math result is the clearest bright spot in the data. The sixth-grade math and eighth-grade ELA figures are the softest, and a parent may want to look into how the school supports students through those transition years. No multi-year trend data was available, so it is unclear whether these results represent improvement, decline, or stability. The school does not appear in any comparison set among county districts, so there is no ready benchmark against neighboring schools.

Housing in the 38659 zip code is quite affordable relative to both state and national levels. Typical home values sit well below the Mississippi state benchmark and far below the national figure, and the price-to-income ratio suggests that a family earning a median income could manage homeownership without the stretch seen in many markets. Rent data was not available. The housing market has shown modest appreciation recently, but the town's declining population and limited commercial base mean demand is unlikely to surge. For a family considering a move, housing costs around Potts Camp would be low, and the trade-off is a thin local economy with most services and larger employers concentrated in nearby Holly Springs or along the Interstate 22 corridor.

No data was available on advanced course offerings, career or dual-credit pathways, graduation rates, discipline, staffing ratios, attendance, or civil-rights indicators such as access to advanced coursework by subgroup. The absence of a graduation rate is a meaningful gap for a school serving through twelfth grade. No district-level parent-relevant changes were identified in the Marshall County School District brief, so there is nothing to report on recent strategic initiatives, facility plans, or program additions. A family evaluating this school would want to ask the district directly about graduation outcomes, course access, and what the high-school years look like academically, since those pieces are not visible in the available data.

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Academic performance

State test results and graduation outcomes.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

>=90%Cohort of 40 students · Class of 2021

The federal source publishes a banded range instead of an exact rate when the graduating cohort is small enough that an exact number could risk identifying individual students.

How this school compares to all schools in this state

Each dot is one school’s SY 2020-21 graduation rate, binned by integer rate. Taller columns mean more schools at that rate. This school is highlighted.

241 schools plotted. 29 additional schools' rates are federally suppressed and not shown. Data: EDFacts SY 2020-21.

Math

Grade 527%

School 27% · District 22% · ▲ 5 pts above district

▼ 15 pts below state median

Grade 614%

School 14% · District 26% · ▼ 12 pts below district

▼ 37 pts below state median

Grade 748%

School 48% · District 33% · ▲ 15 pts above district

▼ 4 pts below state median

Grade 829%

School 29% · District 26% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▼ 15 pts below state median

English language arts

Grade 547%

School 47% · District 35% · ▲ 12 pts above district

▼ 4 pts below state median

Grade 636%

School 36% · District 34% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▼ 6 pts below state median

Grade 733%

School 33% · District 31% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▲ 1 pts above state median

Grade 819%

School 19% · District 29% · ▼ 9 pts below district

▼ 17 pts below state median

Science

Grade 547%

School 47% · District 41% · ▲ 5 pts above district

▼ 18 pts below state median

Grade 844%

School 44% · District 45% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▼ 9 pts below state median

This schoolMARSHALL CO SCHOOL DIST, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.