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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the BAYOU VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL administration to hear?
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Enrollment
638
Elementary
DISTRICT 472 · STATE 446
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GULFPORT SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 280171000269
Bayou View Elementary
4898 Washington Avenue, Gulfport, MS 39507 · (228) 865-4625 · Harrison County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL638 STUDENTS
A+
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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
16.8:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
638 students
DISTRICT 95% · STATE 80%
Community
1
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 | 90 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 119 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 106 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 108 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 110 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 105 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (90) is 14% smaller than its 5th grade class (105).
Student demographics
41%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · 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
Test scores
MAAP 2024-25 . % Proficient + AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
92.0%
MS avg 45.9% . +0.4pp since 2023
Math
85.9%
MS avg 52.8% . -3.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the MAAP, Mississippi's statewide test, about 92 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 86 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Mississippi schools, those numbers are about 46 and 53. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
MAAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 92.0% | 85.9% |
| 2023-24 | 91.6% | 89.8% |
% 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
91.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.1%
based on MS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+47.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 92% 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 48 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 Bayou View Elementary
Bayou View Elementary's state test result (91.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bayou View Elementary this school | 638 | 100.0% | 91.9% |
| Bentonia Gibbs School BENTONIA | 380 | 99.2% | 49.6% |
| Beechwood Elementary VICKSBURG | 550 | 100.0% | 58.2% |
| WEST MARION PRIMARY SCHOOL Foxworth | 435 | 99.3% | 70.0% |
| Bovina Elementary VICKSBURG | 340 | 100.0% | 83.8% |
| South Pontotoc Elementary School Pontotoc | 776 | 99.6% | 69.0% |
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 Bayou View Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Mississippi | In Harrison County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 91.9% | #1 of 428 | #1 of 30 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 85.9% | #7 of 439 ▼ 3 | #2 of 30 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 92.0% | #1 of 439 ▲ 1 | #1 of 30 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 638 | #80 of 453 | #6 of 30 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.8:1 | #333 of 408 | #23 of 29 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 41.3% | #228 of 409 | #24 of 29 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #42 of 444 | #1 of 30 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.1% | #282 of 296 | #23 of 24 |
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
638
-53 (-8%) vs 2020
+3% since 1990-91, when it was 619
Student : Teacher
16.8:1
was 20.3:1
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 | 638 | 38.1 | 16.8:1 | 100% (638) |
| 2023-24 | 687 | 46.5 | 14.8:1 | 100% (684) |
| 2022-23 | 682 | 45.4 | 15.0:1 | 100% (682) |
| 2020-21 | 691 | 34 | 20.3:1 | 100% (688) |
| 2017-18 | 652 | 34.4 | 19.0:1 | 33% (213) |
| 2015-16 | 671 | 36 | 18.6:1 | 37% (249) |
| 2010-11 | 610 | 32 | 19.1:1 | 33% (199) |
| 2000-01 | 526 | 32 | 16.4:1 | 65% (342) |
| 1990-91 | 619 | 29 | 21.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bayou View Elementary.
About Bayou View Elementary
Bayou View Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school that serves part of Gulfport, Mississippi. It has an enrollment of 638 students in kindergarten through 5. On average, elementary schools in Mississippi enroll around 446, and this school is 43% above that mark.
Bayou View Elementary reports to Gulfport School District, which has 9 schools and 5,927 students.
More than half of the students at Bayou View Elementary are White (75%). Next come 13% Black, 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, and 3% Asian. That compares with about 62% White among all Harrison County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 41%.
A staff of 38.1 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 16.8:1. The average for elementary schools in Mississippi, 15.9:1, is lower. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 100%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Harrison County is 74%.
Bayou View Elementary earns an A+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 99% of Mississippi public elementary schools.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. Bayou View Elementary beats its 44.1% prediction with 91.9%, a top-10% result in Mississippi.
American Community Survey estimates for Harrison County show that the median household earns about $59,479 a year, about 28% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 13% of residents are in poverty. Harrison County has 55 public schools with about 30,521 students, including Bayou View Elementary.
Bayou View Middle sits about 0.5 miles from Bayou View Elementary. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Bayou View Elementary places 1st of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
The NCES locale for Bayou View Elementary is City: Small, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
The school's student count fell 8% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio dropped to 16.8:1, from 20.3:1.
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Harrison County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
210,891
Census ACS
Median income
$59,479
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
55
30,521 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Gulfport School District
- Gulfport High SchoolHigh · 1,702 students
- Bayou View MiddleMiddle · 827 students
- Gulfport Central MiddleMiddle · 568 students
- West ElementaryElementary · 492 students
- Anniston ElementaryElementary · 482 students
- Central ElementaryElementary · 482 students
Other schools in Gulfport
- Gulfport High SchoolHigh · 1,702 students
- Harrison Central HighHigh · 1,483 students
- West Harrison HighHigh · 1,216 students
- NORTH GULFPORT ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLElementary · 921 students
- Bayou View MiddleMiddle · 827 students
- West Harrison MiddleMiddle · 650 students
Nearby schools
- Bayou View Middle0.5 mi · 827
- Pass Road Elementary1.4 mi · 377
- Gulfport High School1.6 mi · 1,702
- Harrison County Child Development Center1.7 mi · 77
- Central Elementary2.1 mi · 482
- Anniston Elementary2.5 mi · 482
Frequently asked questions
About Bayou View ElementaryHow many students attend Bayou View Elementary?
Bayou View Elementary enrolls approximately 638 students in grades KG-05.
Is Bayou View Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Bayou View Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Bayou View Elementary have?
Bayou View Elementary employs 38 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.8:1.
What is the student diversity at Bayou View Elementary?
Student demographics at Bayou View Elementary are roughly 75% White, 5% Hispanic, 13% Black, 3% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Bayou View Elementary in?
Bayou View Elementary is part of Gulfport School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.