High · Mississippi
Purvis High School
Purvis High School, a public high school in Purvis, Mississippi: grades 9–13, 614 students, 12.6 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Lamar County 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
- 614
- Teachers (FTE)
- 48.9
- Students per teacher
- 12.6
- Grades
- 9–13
- High
Fewer students per teacher than 49% of high schools in Mississippi
Median 12.6 · 199 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 63% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 62% of high schools in Mississippi
Median 488 · 201 schools compared
Larger than 62% 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
- Distant rural area
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Lamar County School District.
Location
- Address
- 220 School Street, Purvis, MS 39475
- Phone
- (601)794-6221
- City or town
- Purvis
- County
- Lamar 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
Lamar Co Voc Tech CenterCareer and technical | 9–12 | 0 | — |
| 7–12 | 268 | 8.2 | |
| 9–13 | 1,750 | 14.3 | |
| 9–12 | 562 | 10.8 | |
Hattiesburg High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–13 | 1,014 | 12.2 |
| 9–13 | 1,324 | 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.
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