D'Iberville Elementary
Test scores
MAAP 2024-25 . % Proficient + AdvancedWhat this means: On the MAAP, Mississippi's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 44% 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 19 points, placing it in Mississippi's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About D'Iberville Elementary
D'Iberville Elementary, a small primary school in Diberville, Mississippi, part of Harrison County School District, instructs 367 students, covering grades K through 3.
Harrison County School District comprises 22 schools with combined enrollment of 14,253 students; D'Iberville Elementary is among them.
On demographics, D'Iberville Elementary lists that the largest single group is White at 36%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 30% Black, 20% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 5% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 62%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.9:1, putting D'Iberville Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Harrison County (around 74%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.
After controlling for student poverty, D'Iberville Elementary ranks in the top 10% of Mississippi public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 44.4%; D'Iberville Elementary posts 63.7%, +19.3 points above that line.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Harrison County indicate median household earnings sit near $59,479, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Harrison County runs 55 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,521 students), of which D'Iberville Elementary is one.
The closest other public school is D'Iberville Middle School, roughly 1.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.
D'Iberville Elementary operates from a suburban location.
Five-year trend. D'Iberville Elementary's enrollment has edged down 50% since 2018, when it stood at 737 (now 367). White enrollment moved from 53% to 36% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.
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