{"ap_courses":null,"ap_rigor_national_percentile":40.5,"at_a_glance":["Newton County High School is a public high school in Decatur, MS, enrolling 768 students in grades 9-12 in 2024.","Enrollment is up 4% from 2021 to 2024.","161 students took the SAT or ACT in the most recent federal count, a participation level above 71% of U.S. high schools.","Its federal four-year graduation rate was about 87% in the latest EDFacts release.","It has about 154 students per school counselor.","41% of its students were chronically absent in 2020.","Sources: National Center for Education Statistics (enrollment), the federal Civil Rights Data Collection and EDFacts, state education agencies where named, and the school's own published documents where named."],"caveats":["UC admits and applications are counted at each campus: a student admitted to three UCs counts three times. The UC Reach Score is those admits divided by the senior class, times 100, so a strong school scores above 100.","A published college list is the school's own document, copied as printed; counts are the school's, never ours, and an unnumbered list carries no counts.","Enrollment is NCES CCD for national pages and CDE for California pages; graduation and readiness measures are the state's or EDFacts' own definitions, named in each sentence.","Every figure here is also rendered on the HTML page it describes."],"chronic_absenteeism_pct":41.0,"city":"Decatur","dual_enrollment":true,"enrollment":{"grades_9_12":768,"year":2024},"enrollment_change_pct":4.4,"enrollment_change_span":[2021,2024],"faq":[{"a":"Newton County High School's federal four-year graduation rate was about 87% in the latest EDFacts release.","q":"What is Newton County High School's graduation rate?"},{"a":"Newton County High School is a public high school in Decatur, MS, enrolling 768 students in grades 9-12 in 2024.","q":"How many students attend Newton County High School?"}],"federal_grad_rate_pct":87.0,"feeder_standing":null,"name":"Newton County High School","nces_id":"280315001135","ok":true,"published_college_list":null,"sat_act_national_percentile":71.1,"sat_act_takers":161,"school_facts":[],"school_type":"Public","slug":"newton-county-high-school","state":"MS","state_measures":{},"students_per_counselor":154,"url":"https://highschoolreach.com/school/newton-county-high-school"}