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As of 2022- 2023, Tupelo High School offers extracurricular activities, including football, slowpitch and fastpitch softball, cross country, volleyball, swimming, basketball, soccer, bowling, archery, baseball, wrestling, golf, tennis, cheer, and track and field. In addition to athletics, the school
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The current student population of the school is around 2,000 students. As of 2014–2015, it is the largest enrolled public high school in the state of
Mississippi. The class of 2015 consisted of 438 graduates. The school offers a curriculum containing 160
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In 2023, the student body was about 49 percent Black, 36 percent White, and 8 percent
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award winner, having won the award in 1983-1984 and another in 1999–2000.
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