Amite County Elementary

Located at 3457 Greensburg Road, in Liberty, Mississippi, Amite County Elementary is a mid-sized elementary campus that serves 486 students (grades K through 6), part of Amite County School District.

Amite County School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 914 students. Amite County Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Amite County Elementary shows that the largest single group is Black, at 79% of enrollment; the rest looks like 12% White, 6% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. By comparison, Amite County as a whole is about 40% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.9:1, putting Amite County Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Amite County Elementary ranks in the top 10% of Mississippi public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 44.1%; Amite County Elementary posts 59.6%, +15.5 points above that line.

In the area at large, census data for Amite County shows the typical household earns roughly $37,222 per year, about 11% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 23%. Across Amite County's 4 public schools (combined enrollment of about 914 students), Amite County Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Amite County Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Amite County Elementary's enrollment has decreased 16% since 2018, when it stood at 579 (now 486). White enrollment moved from 18% to 12% across the same window.

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