Durant Elementary School

As a low-enrollment K-5 school in Durant, Mississippi, Durant Elementary School caters to 242 students from grades K through 5, part of Holmes County Consolidated. Compared to the state average of about 446 students per school, that is 46% below typical.

Durant Elementary School is one of 7 schools operated by Holmes County Consolidated, a district that educates 2,300 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Durant Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (97%); the rest comes out to 2% Asian. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 81%.

Looking at school resources, Durant Elementary School shows 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.1:1. The state averages about 15.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Holmes County put median household earnings sit near $32,538, about 14% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 33%. In all, Holmes County runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,300 students), of which Durant Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Williams-Sullivan Middle School, around 0.9 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

The school occupies an outlying site.

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