Ashland Elementary School

Set in Ashland, Mississippi, Ashland Elementary School is a tight-knit primary school, run under Benton County School District. It works with 262 students across grades K through 6. That puts it 41% leaner than the typical public school in Mississippi, which averages around 446 students.

Benton County School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 909 students; Ashland Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Ashland Elementary School records that the largest single group is Black at 45%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 31% multiracial, 18% White, 6% Hispanic. By comparison, Benton County as a whole is about 35% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. Around 94% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Ashland Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.2%, the actual is 41.6%, a residual of -5.6 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Benton County put the typical household earns roughly $46,016 per year, 13% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. In all, Benton County runs 4 public schools (combined enrollment of about 909 students), of which Ashland Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Ashland High School, roughly 1.7 miles away. On composite proficiency, Ashland Elementary School comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 43.8%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ashland Elementary School has held roughly steady, going from 266 students in 2018 to 262 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment fell from 75% to 45% over that span.

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