Charleston Elementary School

Charleston Elementary School is one of the compact elementary-level communitys in CHARLESTON, Mississippi, one of the schools within East Tallahatchie School District, with 316 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 29% below the state mean of about 446.

Within East Tallahatchie School District, which oversees 3 schools and 797 students, Charleston Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Charleston Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (83%). Other groups include 12% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Tallahatchie County as a whole is about 61% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Charleston Elementary School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 44.6%; actual is 23.8%, a gap of -20.8 points.

Across the wider county, Tallahatchie County reports that median household income runs about $37,466, about 12% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 20%. In all, Tallahatchie County runs 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,345 students), of which Charleston Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Charleston High School, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Charleston Elementary School comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 46.5%.

Charleston Elementary School operates from a low-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Charleston Elementary School's enrollment has contracted 42% since 2018, when it stood at 543 (now 316). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 20% to 12%.

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