High · Mississippi
Petal High School
Petal High School, a public high school in Petal, Mississippi: grades 9–13, 1,324 students, 12.8 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Petal School District.
Size and class size
Compared with high schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 1,324
- Teachers (FTE)
- 103.1
- Students per teacher
- 12.8
- Grades
- 9–13
- High
More students per teacher than 53% of high schools in Mississippi
Median 12.6 · 199 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 62% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 91% of high schools in Mississippi
Median 488 · 201 schools compared
Larger than 82% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
State test results
No state test results published for this school: state tests cover grades 3–8, and small groups are not published.
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 9–13
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Area
- Small suburb
- Run by
- Petal School District
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Petal School District.
Location
- Address
- 1145 Highway 42 E, Petal, MS 39465
- Phone
- (601)545-1229
- City or town
- Petal
- County
- Forrest County
Nearby high schools
The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Hattiesburg High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–13 | 1,014 | 12.2 |
| 7–12 | 349 | 9.6 | |
| 9–13 | 1,750 | 14.3 | |
| 7–12 | 281 | 12.6 | |
Perry County Alternative CenterAlternative | 5–12 | 0 | — |
| 9–12 | 262 | 12.8 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
NCES 280353001068