Camden Elementary

Camden Elementary is an elementary-level community of very small scale in Camden, Mississippi, one of the schools within Madison County Schools, caters to 99 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Mississippi's public schools average about 446 students each, so Camden Elementary sits 78% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Madison County Schools, which oversees 21 schools and 12,926 students, Camden Elementary is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Camden Elementary logs that 91% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 5% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 37% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Camden Elementary reports 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 6.7:1. The state averages around 15.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 93% of students at Camden Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Madison County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Camden Elementary is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 47.7%; this one delivers 69.9%, a residual of +22.3 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Madison County put median household earnings sit near $83,441, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Camden Elementary is one of 34 public schools in Madison County (combined enrollment of about 16,432 students).

The closest other public school is Shirley D. Simmons Middle School, roughly 1.8 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Camden Elementary operates from a countryside location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Camden Elementary has shrank 7%, going from 107 students in 2018 to 99 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment contracted from 100% to 91% over that span.

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