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Canton High School, Canton, MS

CEP schoolCanton High School is a public high school in Canton, part of Canton Public Schools. It enrolled 899 students in 2024-25, with 18.0 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
899
Teachers (FTE)
50.0
Students per teacher
18.0
Grades
9 to 12

This school's ratio is 3.3 higher than the district figure of 14.7. The Mississippi average across schools is 14.1. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school18.0
District14.7
Mississippi14.1
United States15.3

School details

Address
634 Finney Road, Canton, MS 39046
Phone
(601)859-5325
District
Canton Public Schools
County
Madison County
Level
High
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Rural: Fringe
NCES school ID
280090000101
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
899
Reduced-price lunch
0
Free or reduced-price lunch
899100.0% of enrollment.
Direct certification
401Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision
Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other high schools in Canton Public Schools

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.