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Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8

Nichols Middle School, Canton, MS

CEP schoolNichols Middle School is a public middle school in Canton, part of Canton Public Schools. It enrolled 362 students in 2024-25, with 12.9 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
362
Teachers (FTE)
28.0
Students per teacher
12.9
Grades
6 to 8

This school's ratio is 1.8 lower 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 school12.9
District14.7
Mississippi14.1
United States15.3

School details

Address
529 North Mace Street, Canton, MS 39046
Phone
(601)859-3741
District
Canton Public Schools
County
Madison County
Level
Middle
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Town: Fringe
NCES school ID
280090000103
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
362
Reduced-price lunch
0
Free or reduced-price lunch
362100.0% of enrollment.
Direct certification
192Students 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 middle schools in Canton Public Schools

Middle schools elsewhere in Canton

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.