Enrollment
99
Elementary
DISTRICT 472 · STATE 446
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MADISON COUNTY SCHOOLS·NCES 280279000988
Camden Elementary
4784 Hwy 43 North, Camden, MS 39045 · (662) 468-2833 · Madison County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL99 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 88% 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.
- ABeats 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
6.7:1
15 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
93%
92 students
DISTRICT 50% · 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 | 21 | 21% |
| Grade 1 | 10 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 19 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 18 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 17 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 14 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (21) is 50% larger than its 5th grade class (14).
Student demographics
17%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
61.2%
MS avg 45.9% . -1.3pp since 2023
Math
71.4%
MS avg 52.8% . -8.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the MAAP, Mississippi's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 71 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 9 points.
MAAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 61.2% | 71.4% |
| 2023-24 | 62.5% | 80.0% |
% 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
69.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.7%
based on MS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+22.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 48% 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 22 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 Camden Elementary
Camden Elementary's state test result (69.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camden Elementary this school | 99 | 92.9% | 69.9% |
| KCSD Upper Elementary School DE KALB | 108 | 100.0% | 41.9% |
| Jonestown Elementary JONESTOWN | 135 | 98.5% | 41.2% |
| Rosser Early Learning Center Moorhead | 79 | 100.0% | 50.5% |
| Meridian PreK Academy Meridian | 142 | 97.9% | 29.5% |
| Luther Branson Elementary CANTON | 151 | 95.4% | 80.9% |
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 Camden Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Mississippi | In Madison County |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 99 | #448 of 453 | #15 of 16 |
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
99
-5 (-5%) vs 2020
-62% since 2000-01, when it was 263
Student : Teacher
6.7:1
was 6.5:1
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 | 99 | 14.7 | 6.7:1 | 93% (92) |
| 2023-24 | 103 | 17.1 | 6.0:1 | 94% (97) |
| 2022-23 | 108 | 15.8 | 6.8:1 | 97% (105) |
| 2020-21 | 104 | 16 | 6.5:1 | 97% (101) |
| 2017-18 | 107 | 14.2 | 7.5:1 | 97% (104) |
| 2015-16 | 130 | 14 | 9.3:1 | 98% (127) |
| 2010-11 | 197 | 12 | 16.4:1 | 95% (188) |
| 2000-01 | 263 | 19 | 13.8:1 | 31% (82) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Camden Elementary.
About Camden Elementary
Camden Elementary is an elementary school in Camden, Mississippi, reachable at (662) 468-2833. Enrollment totals 99 students across kindergarten through 5. Across elementary schools in Mississippi, the average enrollment is about 446.
Madison County Schools is made up of 21 schools with 12,926 students in all.
Black students are 91% of those enrolled at Camden Elementary. The next largest groups are 5% White and 4% multiracial. In Madison County overall, about 37% of residents are Black. A diversity index of 17% means there is a 17% chance two randomly chosen students at Camden Elementary are from different groups.
Staffing at Camden Elementary comes to 14.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 6.7:1. Elementary schools in Mississippi have an average ratio of 15.9:1. On the income side, 93% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is higher than the 52% average for public schools in Madison County.
Among Mississippi public elementary schools, Camden Elementary outscored 88%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
Schools in Mississippi with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to post an average proficiency rate across its state test results near 47.7%. Camden Elementary posts 69.9%, 22.3 points above that, which places it in the top 10% statewide on BeatsExpectations.
Census data for Madison County show the median household earns about $83,441 a year, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 8% of people live in poverty. Counting Camden Elementary, Madison County has 34 public schools.
Shirley D. Simmons Middle School, about 1.8 miles away, is the closest public school. Other public schools within five miles number 3. On average proficiency, Camden Elementary is 2nd of 9 nearby schools with test data.
Camden Elementary has an NCES locale of Rural: Distant.
Enrollment decreased by 5% across 4 years, from 104 in 2020-21 to 99 in 2024-25.
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Madison County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
111,647
Census ACS
Median income
$83,441
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
50%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
34
16,432 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Madison County Schools
- Germantown High SchoolHigh · 1,411 students
- Madison Central High SchoolHigh · 1,260 students
- Madison Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,180 students
- Germantown MiddleMiddle · 1,008 students
- Ridgeland High SchoolHigh · 995 students
- Madison Station ElementaryElementary · 980 students
Other Camden Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 4 states are named Camden Elementary. Camden Elementary is the 4th largest of the 4.
- Camden ElementaryCamden, SC · 644 students
- CAMDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLCAMDEN, NY · 493 students
- Camden ElementaryCamden, TN · 442 students
Nearby schools
- Shirley D. Simmons Middle School1.8 mi · 124
- Velma Jackson High School3.5 mi · 224
- Luther Branson Elementary4.8 mi · 151
- Canton High School12.2 mi · 899
- CANTON PUBLIC 9TH GRADE SCHOOL12.2 mi · 262
- Jimmie M Goodloe Elementary12.4 mi · 366
Frequently asked questions
About Camden ElementaryHow large is Camden Elementary?
Camden Elementary enrolls approximately 99 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Camden Elementary serve?
Camden Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many teachers does Camden Elementary have?
Camden Elementary employs 15 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 6.7:1.
What is the student diversity at Camden Elementary?
Student demographics at Camden Elementary are roughly 5% White, 91% Black, 4% Two or more.
What district is Camden Elementary in?
Camden Elementary is part of Madison County Schools.
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