Enrollment
298
Elementary
DISTRICT 231 · STATE 446
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GREENVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 280162000239
Boyd Elementary School
1021 South Colorado Street, Greenville, MS 38703 · (662) 334-2872 · Washington County
GRADES 01–05ELEMENTARY33-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL298 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 23% of Mississippi public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
16.4:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.0:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
298 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 1 | 77 | 26% |
| Grade 2 | 60 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 54 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 57 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 50 | 17% |
This year's 1st grade class (77) is 54% larger than its 5th grade class (50).
Student demographics
36%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 34% · 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
41.3%
MS avg 45.9% . +3.4pp since 2023
Math
40.0%
MS avg 52.8% . +4.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the MAAP, Mississippi's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Mississippi schools, those numbers are about 46 and 53. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
MAAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.3% | 40.0% |
| 2023-24 | 37.9% | 35.4% |
% Proficient + Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: MAAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
40.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.1%
based on MS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% typical for Mississippi schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Mississippi's top nor bottom 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 Boyd Elementary School
Boyd Elementary School's state test result (40.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boyd Elementary School this school | 298 | 100.0% | 40.9% |
| Stern Elementary School Greenville | 303 | 100.0% | 34.2% |
| KCSD Lower Elementary School SCOOBA | 285 | 98.9% | 49.5% |
| Green Hill Intermediate SARDIS | 264 | 98.9% | 30.6% |
| George H. Oliver Visual/Performing Arts Magnet School CLARKSDALE | 299 | 98.0% | 24.2% |
| Booker T. Washington International Studies Magnet School CLARKSDALE | 247 | 98.8% | 17.1% |
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 Boyd Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Mississippi | In Washington County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.9% | #341 of 428 | #6 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 40.0% | #299 of 439 ▲ 36 | #4 of 12 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.3% | #278 of 439 ▲ 59 | #5 of 12 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 298 | #326 of 453 | #4 of 12 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.4:1 | #309 of 408 | #8 of 10 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 35.9% | #252 of 409 | #6 of 10 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #36 of 444 | #3 of 12 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -31.3% | #40 of 296 | #6 of 9 |
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
298
-55 (-16%) vs 2020
-39% since 1990-91, when it was 488
Student : Teacher
16.4:1
was 16.8:1
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 | 298 | 18.2 | 16.4:1 | 100% (298) |
| 2023-24 | 312 | 18.4 | 16.9:1 | 100% (312) |
| 2022-23 | 311 | 20.2 | 15.4:1 | 100% (311) |
| 2020-21 | 353 | 21 | 16.8:1 | 100% (353) |
| 2017-18 | 434 | 21.7 | 20.0:1 | 100% (434) |
| 2015-16 | 492 | 25 | 19.7:1 | 100% (492) |
| 2010-11 | 477 | 27 | 17.7:1 | 94% (447) |
| 2000-01 | 543 | 25 | 21.7:1 | 88% (477) |
| 1990-91 | 488 | 24 | 20.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Boyd Elementary School.
About Boyd Elementary School
Boyd Elementary School is a small elementary school found in Greenville, Mississippi. A federal count lists 298 students at the school, in grades 1 through 5. Average enrollment for elementary schools in Mississippi is about 446, so this school runs 33% smaller than that.
Greenville Public School District has 3,385 students in 11 schools, and Boyd Elementary School is one of those schools.
Roughly 77% of students at Boyd Elementary School are Black. Beyond that, enrollment is 21% multiracial. Pick two students at random and there is a 36% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The teaching staff at Boyd Elementary School is 18.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 16.4:1. That is close to the 15.9:1 average for elementary schools in Mississippi. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 100%. For comparison, public schools in Washington County average 100%.
Measured against Mississippi public elementary schools, Boyd Elementary School receives a C-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Boyd Elementary School, the prediction is 44.1% and the result is 40.9%.
Boyd Elementary School is located in Washington County, where the median household income is $42,165, roughly 22% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 22%. Boyd Elementary School is one of 25 public schools in the county.
Greenville High School is the public school closest to Boyd Elementary School, about 0.9 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Boyd Elementary School is 4th of 8 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
The school's locale code, Town: Remote, means it is in a town far from an urbanized area.
Enrollment dropped 16% from its 2020-21 level of 353.
The allk12 site hosts a discussion page for Boyd Elementary School covering things like sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Washington County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
42,765
Census ACS
Median income
$42,165
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
22%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
22%
Below federal line
Schools in county
25
6,329 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Greenville Public School District
- Greenville High SchoolHigh · 836 students
- T.L. Weston Middle SchoolMiddle · 412 students
- Stern Elementary SchoolElementary · 303 students
- Coleman Middle SchoolMiddle · 287 students
- Akin Elementary SchoolElementary · 255 students
- Weddington Elementary SchoolElementary · 249 students
Other schools in Greenville
- Greenville High SchoolHigh · 836 students
- O'Bannon Elementary SchoolElementary · 543 students
- O'Bannon High SchoolHigh · 474 students
- T.L. Weston Middle SchoolMiddle · 412 students
- Stern Elementary SchoolElementary · 303 students
- Coleman Middle SchoolMiddle · 287 students
Other Boyd Elementary schools
5 other US public schools in 5 states are named Boyd Elementary. Boyd Elementary School is the 5th largest of the 6.
- Boyd Elementary SchoolJackson, MS · 424 students
- BOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLOMAHA, NE · 547 students
- Boyd Elementary SchoolBOYD, TX · 541 students
- BOYD ELEM.SPRINGFIELD, MO · 347 students
- Boyd ElementaryBoyd, WI · 68 students
Nearby schools
- Greenville High School0.9 mi · 836
- Stern Elementary School1.1 mi · 303
- Coleman Middle School1.1 mi · 287
- O'Bannon Elementary School1.5 mi · 543
- O'Bannon High School1.5 mi · 474
- Trigg Elementary School1.6 mi · 231
Frequently asked questions
About Boyd Elementary SchoolHow large is Boyd Elementary School?
Boyd Elementary School enrolls approximately 298 students in grades 01-05.
What age range does Boyd Elementary School serve?
Boyd Elementary School serves students from grade 01 through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Boyd Elementary School?
Approximately 16.4:1 students per teacher at Boyd Elementary School.
How diverse is Boyd Elementary School?
Boyd Elementary School reports a student body of 1% White, 1% Hispanic, 77% Black, 21% Two or more.
Is Boyd Elementary School public or private?
Boyd Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Greenville Public School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.