Bruce Elementary

Bruce Elementary is a low-enrollment K-5 school in BRUCE, Mississippi, overseen by Calhoun County School District. The school instructs 316 students in grades pre-K through 4. That puts it 29% smaller than the typical public school in Mississippi, which averages around 446 students.

Bruce Elementary is one of 5 schools operated by Calhoun County School District, a district that educates 1,989 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Bruce Elementary reports that 63% of the student body identifies as White; the rest looks like 27% Black, 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. About 74% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Calhoun County indicate the typical household earns roughly $43,125 per year, 12% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Bruce Elementary is one of 8 public schools in Calhoun County (combined enrollment of about 1,989 students).

The closest other public school is Bruce High School, roughly 0.3 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bruce Elementary has ticked down 5%, going from 331 students in 2018 to 316 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.

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