High · Regular · Grades 7 to 12

Newton County High School, Decatur, MS

Newton County High School is a public high school in Decatur, part of Newton County School District. It enrolled 768 students in 2024-25, with 11.8 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 768
Teachers (FTE): 65.0
Students per teacher: 11.8
Grades: 7 to 12

This school's ratio is 1.6 lower than the district figure of 13.4. The Mississippi average across schools is 14.1. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school11.8

District13.4

Mississippi14.1

United States15.3

School details

Address: 16255 Hwy 503, Decatur, MS 39327
Phone: (601)635-4261
District: Newton County School District
County: Newton County
Level: High
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Virtual: No
Locale: Rural: Remote
NCES school ID: 280315001135

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free lunch: 307
Reduced-price lunch: 62
Free or reduced-price lunch: 36948.0% of enrollment.
Direct certification: 113Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision: No

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.

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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.