Enrollment
415
Elementary
DISTRICT 310 · STATE 446
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COLUMBUS MUNICIPAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 280120000156
Cook Elementary School
2217 7th Street N, Columbus, MS 39701 · (662) 241-7180 · Lowndes County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY33-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL415 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 21% 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
14.2:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.9:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
414 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 19 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 69 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 83 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 71 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 65 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 58 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 50 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (69) is 38% larger than its 5th grade class (50).
Student demographics
25%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 14% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Cook Elementary School→Columbus Middle School
Based on grade levels within Columbus Municipal School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
MAAP 2024-25 . % Proficient + AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
34.1%
MS avg 45.9% . -2.9pp since 2023
Math
34.3%
MS avg 52.8% . -4.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the MAAP, Mississippi's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 34 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
MAAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 34.1% | 34.3% |
| 2023-24 | 37.0% | 39.2% |
% 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
40.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.2%
based on MS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% 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 Cook Elementary School
Cook Elementary School's state test result (40.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cook Elementary School this school | 415 | 99.8% | 40.0% |
| West Hills Elementary Meridian | 423 | 100.0% | 44.1% |
| Grace Christian Elementary HATTIESBURG | 367 | 100.0% | 66.9% |
| Bay Springs Elementary School BAY SPRINGS | 370 | 96.8% | 56.7% |
| Crestwood Elementary Meridian | 368 | 99.2% | 35.2% |
| Poplar Springs Elementary Meridian | 405 | 100.0% | 47.3% |
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 Cook Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Mississippi | In Lowndes County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.0% | #344 of 428 | #7 of 8 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 34.3% | #340 of 439 ▼ 28 | #6 of 8 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.1% | #345 of 439 ▲ 2 | #4 of 8 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 415 | #207 of 453 | #3 of 8 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.2:1 | #145 of 408 | #5 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 25.0% | #311 of 409 | #4 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.8% | #114 of 444 | #4 of 8 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -25.6% | #67 of 296 | #2 of 7 |
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
415
+24 (+6%) vs 2020
-15% since 1990-91, when it was 487
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
was 15.6:1
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 | 415 | 29.2 | 14.2:1 | 100% (414) |
| 2023-24 | 423 | 30.6 | 13.8:1 | 100% (423) |
| 2022-23 | 388 | 34 | 11.4:1 | 100% (388) |
| 2020-21 | 391 | 25 | 15.6:1 | 100% (391) |
| 2017-18 | 558 | 34.7 | 16.1:1 | 100% (558) |
| 2015-16 | 633 | 39 | 16.2:1 | 100% (633) |
| 2010-11 | 832 | 53 | 15.7:1 | 83% (688) |
| 2000-01 | 485 | 32 | 15.2:1 | 73% (356) |
| 1990-91 | 487 | 32 | 15.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cook Elementary School.
About Cook Elementary School
Cook Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Columbus, Mississippi, administered by Columbus Municipal School District. The school runs pre-K through 5 and enrolls 415 students.
Columbus Municipal School District is made up of 7 schools with 3,011 students in all.
Of every 100 students at Cook Elementary School, about 86 are Black. The remaining students are 6% Hispanic and 4% White. Census figures show Lowndes County is about 44% Black. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 25, compared with 70 nationally.
Staffing at Cook Elementary School comes to 29.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.2:1. The school's 14.2:1 compares with an average of 15.9:1 for elementary schools in Mississippi. On the income side, 100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Lowndes County averages 75%, lower than here.
On the allk12 Grade, Cook Elementary School lands at C-, ahead of 21% of Mississippi public elementary schools.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Cook Elementary School is 4.2 points below the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 40.0% actual, 44.2% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Mississippi.
Looking at the county, Lowndes County, the median household earns about $53,812 a year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Cook Elementary School, Lowndes County has 20 public schools.
Franklin Academy is the nearest public school to Cook Elementary School, about 1.6 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number 7. The school's 40.0% average proficiency ranks 4th among 8 nearby schools.
The school is in a town far from an urbanized area, according to its NCES locale (Town: Remote).
From 391 students in 2020-21, enrollment rose to 415 by 2024-25. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 15.6:1 to 14.2:1.
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Lowndes County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
57,838
Census ACS
Median income
$53,812
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
20
8,512 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Columbus Municipal School District
- Columbus High SchoolHigh · 865 students
- Columbus Middle SchoolMiddle · 597 students
- Stokes Beard Elementary SchoolElementary · 369 students
- Sale Elementary SchoolElementary · 290 students
- Fairview Elementary SchoolElementary · 244 students
- Franklin AcademyElementary · 231 students
Other schools in Columbus
- New Hope ElementaryElementary · 1,191 students
- Columbus High SchoolHigh · 865 students
- New Hope High SchoolHigh · 787 students
- New Hope Middle SchoolMiddle · 604 students
- Columbus Middle SchoolMiddle · 597 students
- Stokes Beard Elementary SchoolElementary · 369 students
Other Cook Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 5 states are named Cook Elementary. Cook Elementary School is the 3rd largest of the 5.
- Cook Elementary SchoolSparks, GA · 666 students
- Cook Elementary SchoolAUSTIN, TX · 433 students
- Cook Elementary SchoolGRAND BLANC, MI · 397 students
- Cook Elementary SchoolChicago, IL · 322 students
Nearby schools
- Franklin Academy1.6 mi · 231
- Stokes Beard Elementary School1.8 mi · 369
- MS SCHOOL FOR MATH AND SCIENCE2.0 mi · 240
- Columbus High School2.5 mi · 865
- Fairview Elementary School2.9 mi · 244
- Sale Elementary School3.1 mi · 290
Frequently asked questions
About Cook Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Cook Elementary School?
Cook Elementary School enrolls approximately 415 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Cook Elementary School serve?
Cook Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Cook Elementary School have?
Cook Elementary School employs 29 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.2:1.
How diverse is Cook Elementary School?
Cook Elementary School reports a student body of 4% White, 6% Hispanic, 86% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Cook Elementary School?
Cook Elementary School is overseen by Columbus Municipal School District in Lowndes County.
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