Northwest Rankin High School, Flowood MS

Original Research by School Decision on Northwest Rankin High School

Northwest Rankin High School sits in Flowood, a suburb of Jackson and one of Mississippi's fastest-growing cities. The school serves grades nine through twelve as part of the Rankin County School District, which covers a county that is among the fastest-growing in the state. The campus lies along the Lakeland Drive corridor, publicly reported as Mississippi's most commercially dense multi-lane highway. This is car-oriented suburban territory, with strip retail, office parks, and residential subdivisions rather than a walkable grid. The Ross Barnett Reservoir sits nearby for recreation, and Jackson International Airport is adjacent. Winner's Circle Park and Liberty Park, with its baseball and soccer fields, serve as recreational anchors. No public library was identified in the available search results for Flowood.

The school is large for a Mississippi high school, with enrollment filling all four grade levels plus a small ungraded group. Its student body is majority white, with a substantial Black population and smaller shares of Asian, Hispanic, and multiracial students. About a third of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Data on special education enrollment and English learner counts was not reported, so those populations cannot be characterized here.

Flowood's local economy helps frame the community context. Publicly reported major employers include Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Mississippi, Ergon, US Foods, Merit River Oaks Hospital, Nucor Steel, and Community Bank, spanning insurance, petrochemicals, food manufacturing, health care, and metals fabrication. Named development areas such as Flowood Medical Parkway, The Pinelands, Refuge Town Center, and the West Rankin Parkway Industrial Complex point to continued growth. The city emphasizes its low municipal tax millage and logistics infrastructure, sitting at the crossroads of interstate highways with rail access via multiple carriers.

Housing in the school's zip code sits well above the state benchmark and roughly in

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Academic performance

How students graduate and prepare for what comes next.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

90.0%Cohort of 422 students · Class of 2021

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.

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.