Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8
Shirley D. Simmons Middle School, Canton, MS
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 124
- Teachers (FTE)
- 19.0
- Students per teacher
- 6.5
- Grades
- 6 to 8
This school's ratio is 5.5 lower than the district figure of 12.0. The Mississippi average across schools is 14.1. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 820 Sulphur Springs Road, Canton, MS 39046
- Phone
- (601)855-2406
- District
- Madison County Schools
- County
- Madison County
- Level
- Middle
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Rural: Distant
- NCES school ID
- 280279000989
School meals
- Free lunch
- 108
- Reduced-price lunch
- 9
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 11794.4% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 59Students 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.
Related schools
Other middle schools in Madison County Schools
- Madison Middle School 1,180 students
- Germantown Middle 1,008 students
- Old Town Middle School 693 students
Middle schools elsewhere in Canton
- Nichols Middle School Canton Public Schools
- Huey L Porter Middle 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.