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10 hours ago, Rebel Bert said:

Oak Grove is #6 in enrollment in 2024. They would have to loose 125 to 150 students per class. Yes I can see some people moving away from West Hattiesburg but I don't see that big of drop coming in 2026.

Yeah. Based on the enrollment of the last school to make it into 7A, OG’s current student population would have to be nearly cut in half for OG to drop into 6A. They’re currently averaging mid-400s per class. Ain’t no way they’ll lose overall when they actually grew over the last 2 years and went from like #10 to #6 in size during that time.

The closest schools to them are: Sumrall, Purvis, Columbia, Petal, and Hattiesburg HS on the public side and Columbia Academy, PCS, Lamar Christian and Sacred Heart on the private school side. Any football athletes looking at that list are gonna be hard pressed to come up with a legit reason that OG isn’t the best opportunity available right now with regard to coaching and being seen for recruitment at the next level. Columbia would be the next best major competitor there - but one of the best defensive guys Columbia had in the class of 2026 (McDaniel) transferred to OG for his junior and senior years and started for OG. So it doesn’t look like the strongest athletes are leaving OG. Looks like they’re coming in. And academically speaking, OG is pretty solid. 

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On 12/8/2025 at 3:43 AM, Rebel Bert said:

Oak Grove is #6 in enrollment in 2024. They would have to loose 125 to 150 students per class. Yes I can see some people moving away from West Hattiesburg but I don't see that big of drop coming in 2026.

Well… we knew that lol… but you def had them confused with Meridian. 

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2 hours ago, Dubaction said:

Well… we knew that lol… but you def had them confused with Meridian. 

No that wasn't me. It was someone else posting that. I went back and looked at #'s for 2023-24 posted on MDE. I knew this person had to be talking about Meridian. You can't rule out the bottom five of 7A in the last reclassification as a possibility of dropping.

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