Enrollment
242
Elementary
DISTRICT 321 · STATE 446
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JACKSON PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 280219001052
Barack Obama Elementary School
750 N. Congress Street, Jackson, MS 39202 · (601) 960-5334 · Hinds County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL242 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 99% of Mississippi public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Mississippi public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
14 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.4:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
242 students
DISTRICT 100% · STATE 80%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 28 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 40 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 42 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 49 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 42 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 41 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (28) is 32% smaller than its 5th grade class (41).
Student demographics
5%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 14% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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MAAP 2024-25 . % Proficient + AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
85.5%
MS avg 45.9% . -2.1pp since 2023
Math
81.7%
MS avg 52.8% . +6.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the MAAP, Mississippi's statewide test, about 86 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 82 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Mississippi schools, those numbers are about 46 and 53. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
MAAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 85.5% | 81.7% |
| 2023-24 | 87.6% | 75.2% |
% Proficient + Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: MAAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of MS schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
85.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.1%
based on MS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+41.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 86% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 44% typical for Mississippi schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 42 points, placing it in Mississippi's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Barack Obama Elementary School
Barack Obama Elementary School's state test result (85.8% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barack Obama Elementary School this school | 242 | 100.0% | 85.8% |
| D.M. Smith Elementary CLEVELAND | 233 | 99.6% | 38.5% |
| Webb Elementary School Greenville | 230 | 100.0% | 35.2% |
| Nailor Elementary School CLEVELAND | 256 | 100.0% | 29.8% |
| GPE School Goodman | 191 | 100.0% | 38.2% |
| Isable Elementary School Jackson | 244 | 100.0% | 28.5% |
Matched among Mississippi elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Barack Obama Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Mississippi | In Hinds County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 85.8% | #7 of 428 | #1 of 31 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 81.7% | #26 of 439 ▲ 30 | #3 of 38 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 85.5% | #5 of 439 ▲ 1 | #1 of 38 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 242 | #381 of 453 | #32 of 40 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.9:1 | #343 of 408 | #25 of 36 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 4.9% | #392 of 409 | #29 of 36 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #72 of 444 | #27 of 39 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.0% | #201 of 296 | #17 of 22 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
242
+14 (+6%) vs 2020
-22% since 1990-91, when it was 310
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
was 15.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 242 | 14.3 | 16.9:1 | 100% (242) |
| 2023-24 | 292 | 18.5 | 15.8:1 | 100% (292) |
| 2022-23 | 239 | 17.1 | 13.9:1 | 100% (239) |
| 2020-21 | 228 | 15 | 15.2:1 | 100% (228) |
| 2017-18 | 266 | 15.5 | 17.1:1 | 100% (266) |
| 2015-16 | 264 | 16 | 16.5:1 | 100% (264) |
| 2010-11 | 288 | 15 | 19.2:1 | 66% (189) |
| 2000-01 | 253 | 15 | 16.9:1 | 81% (205) |
| 1990-91 | 310 | 13 | 23.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Barack Obama Elementary School.
About Barack Obama Elementary School
Barack Obama Elementary School is a small elementary school in Jackson, Mississippi, one of the schools in Jackson Public Schools. Enrollment in 2024-25 was 242 students in kindergarten through 5. The average for elementary schools in Mississippi is about 446 students, so this school is 46% smaller than average.
Barack Obama Elementary School is among 45 schools run by Jackson Public Schools, which serves 19,765 students.
Barack Obama Elementary School's enrollment is 98% Black. Hinds County as a whole is about 72% Black, so the school's share is higher. Pick two students at random and there is a 5% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Its 14.3 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 16.9:1. The school has more students per teacher than the 15.9:1 average for elementary schools in Mississippi. The school's lunch program data list 100% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Public schools in Hinds County average 88%.
The allk12 Grade for Barack Obama Elementary School is A+. Compared with Mississippi public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 99% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. Barack Obama Elementary School beats its 44.1% prediction with 85.8%, a top-10% result in Mississippi.
Hinds County has about 218,533 residents, and the median household income is $49,402, about 31% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 17%. In all, Hinds County has 84 public schools and roughly 32,870 students.
Wells APAC Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles away. Within five miles of Barack Obama Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. On proficiency, Barack Obama Elementary School is ahead of the 37.1% nearby average, ranking 2nd of 9.
NCES lists the school's locale as City: Mid-size. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Over 4 years, Barack Obama Elementary School's enrollment climbed 6%, to 242. The number of students per teacher rose from 15.2 to 16.9 over 4 years.
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Hinds County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
218,533
Census ACS
Median income
$49,402
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
17%
Below federal line
Schools in county
84
32,870 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Jackson Public Schools
- Murrah High SchoolHigh · 1,259 students
- Forest Hill High SchoolHigh · 1,139 students
- Callaway High SchoolHigh · 994 students
- Jim Hill High SchoolHigh · 975 students
- Lanier Junior/Senior High SchoolHigh · 895 students
- Provine High SchoolHigh · 791 students
Other schools in Jackson
- Murrah High SchoolHigh · 1,259 students
- Forest Hill High SchoolHigh · 1,139 students
- Callaway High SchoolHigh · 994 students
- Jim Hill High SchoolHigh · 975 students
- Lanier Junior/Senior High SchoolHigh · 895 students
- Provine High SchoolHigh · 791 students
Other Barack Obama Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 5 states are named Barack Obama Elementary. Barack Obama Elementary School is the 4th largest of the 5.
- Barack Obama ElementaryUpper Marlboro, MD · 629 students
- BARACK OBAMA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHEMPSTEAD, NY · 439 students
- Barack Obama ElementaryRichmond, VA · 274 students
- BARACK OBAMA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLST. LOUIS, MO · 233 students
Nearby schools
- Wells APAC Elementary School1.3 mi · 40
- Galloway Elementary School1.3 mi · 296
- Murrah High School1.4 mi · 1,259
- Lanier Junior/Senior High School1.4 mi · 895
- Blackburn Middle School1.7 mi · 317
- Isable Elementary School2.4 mi · 244
Frequently asked questions
About Barack Obama Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Barack Obama Elementary School?
Barack Obama Elementary School enrolls approximately 242 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Barack Obama Elementary School serve?
Barack Obama Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Barack Obama Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Barack Obama Elementary School is approximately 16.9:1 (14 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Barack Obama Elementary School?
Barack Obama Elementary School reports a student body of 0% White, 1% Hispanic, 98% Black, 1% Asian.
Is Barack Obama Elementary School public or private?
Barack Obama Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Jackson Public Schools.
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