Enrollment
345
Elementary
DISTRICT 280 · STATE 446
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SOUTH PIKE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 280408000768
Eva Gordon Lower Elementary School
1175 North Clark Street, Magnolia, MS 39652 · (601) 783-0434 · Pike County
GRADES PK–03ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL345 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 12% of Mississippi public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats 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
14.3:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.8:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
345 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 | 18 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 70 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 87 | 25% |
| Grade 2 | 80 | 23% |
| Grade 3 | 90 | 26% |
Student demographics
25%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 26% · 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
Eva Gordon Lower Elementary School→Eva Gordon Upper Elementary School
Based on grade levels within South Pike School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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MAAP 2024-25 . % Proficient + AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
35.7%
MS avg 45.9% . +11.9pp since 2023
Math
47.6%
MS avg 52.8% . +16.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the MAAP, Mississippi's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Mississippi schools, those numbers are about 46 and 53. Reading and writing scores are up about 12 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 16 points.
MAAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 35.7% | 47.6% |
| 2023-24 | 23.8% | 31.3% |
% 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
34.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.1%
based on MS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% 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 Eva Gordon Lower Elementary School
Eva Gordon Lower Elementary School's state test result (34.6% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eva Gordon Lower Elementary School this school | 345 | 100.0% | 34.6% |
| West Elementary School NATCHEZ | 376 | 99.7% | 34.2% |
| Charleston Elementary School CHARLESTON | 316 | 99.1% | 23.8% |
| Vicksburg Intermediate Vicksburg | 387 | 100.0% | 47.3% |
| Bolton-Edwards Elem Middle School Bolton | 335 | 100.0% | 42.2% |
| Dana Road Elementary Vicksburg | 403 | 100.0% | 52.2% |
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 Eva Gordon Lower Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Mississippi | In Pike County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.6% | #383 of 428 | #6 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.6% | #235 of 439 ▲ 125 | #3 of 6 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 35.7% | #332 of 439 ▲ 89 | #6 of 6 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 345 | #285 of 453 | #3 of 6 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.3:1 | #149 of 408 | #3 of 6 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 25.2% | #310 of 409 | #4 of 6 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #94 of 444 | #4 of 6 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.5% | #81 of 296 | N/A |
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
345
-10 (-3%) vs 2020
-41% since 1990-91, when it was 583
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
was 16.1:1
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 | 345 | 24.2 | 14.3:1 | 100% (345) |
| 2023-24 | 352 | 28.2 | 12.5:1 | 100% (352) |
| 2022-23 | 386 | 26.9 | 14.4:1 | 100% (386) |
| 2020-21 | 355 | 22 | 16.1:1 | 100% (355) |
| 2017-18 | 451 | 25.3 | 17.9:1 | 100% (451) |
| 2015-16 | 717 | 39 | 18.4:1 | 100% (717) |
| 2010-11 | 429 | 28 | 15.3:1 | 94% (404) |
| 2000-01 | 417 | 23 | 18.1:1 | 89% (373) |
| 1990-91 | 583 | 33 | 17.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Eva Gordon Lower Elementary School.
About Eva Gordon Lower Elementary School
A small elementary school in Magnolia, Mississippi, Eva Gordon Lower Elementary School is part of South Pike School District. The school runs pre-K through 3 and enrolls 345 students. Elementary schools in Mississippi have about 446 students on average; enrollment here is 23% lower.
South Pike School District has 5 schools; together they serve 1,461 students.
Black students are 86% of those enrolled at Eva Gordon Lower Elementary School. Next come 10% White and 3% multiracial. That compares with about 54% Black among all Pike County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 25%.
Teacher count: 24.2 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 14.3:1. Across elementary schools in Mississippi, the average ratio is 15.9:1. Roughly 100% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Compared with the 91% average for public schools in Pike County, the school's rate is higher.
Among Mississippi public elementary schools, Eva Gordon Lower Elementary School outscored 12%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 44.1% for Eva Gordon Lower Elementary School. The school posts 34.6%, 9.5 points below the prediction.
Looking at the county, Pike County, the median household earns about $43,814 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 15%, and roughly 23% of residents are in poverty. Pike County has 20 public schools with about 5,717 students, including Eva Gordon Lower Elementary School.
Eva Gordon Upper Elementary School is the nearest public school to Eva Gordon Lower Elementary School, less than a tenth of a mile away. Eva Gordon Lower Elementary School is one of several public schools in the area, with 3 others within five miles. Nearby schools with test data average 40.6% proficiency; Eva Gordon Lower Elementary School posts 34.6%.
Eva Gordon Lower Elementary School has an NCES locale of Rural: Distant.
The school shrank from 355 students in 2020-21 to 345 in 2024-25. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 16.1:1 to 14.3:1.
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Pike County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
39,602
Census ACS
Median income
$43,814
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
15%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
23%
Below federal line
Schools in county
20
5,717 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in South Pike School District
- South Pike High SchoolHigh · 425 students
- South Pike Junior HighMiddle · 241 students
- Eva Gordon Upper Elementary SchoolMiddle · 236 students
- Osyka Elementary SchoolElementary · 214 students
- SOUTH PIKE ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLHigh
- SOUTH PIKE CAREER & TECHNICAL CENTEHigh
Other schools in Magnolia
- South Pike High SchoolHigh · 425 students
- South Pike Junior HighMiddle · 241 students
- Eva Gordon Upper Elementary SchoolMiddle · 236 students
- SOUTH PIKE ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLHigh
- SOUTH PIKE CAREER & TECHNICAL CENTEHigh
Nearby schools
- Eva Gordon Upper Elementary School0.1 mi · 236
- South Pike Junior High0.9 mi · 241
- South Pike High School1.0 mi · 425
- McComb High School5.8 mi · 632
- Kennedy Elementary School5.9 mi · 232
- Denman Junior High School5.9 mi · 312
Frequently asked questions
About Eva Gordon Lower Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Eva Gordon Lower Elementary School?
Eva Gordon Lower Elementary School enrolls approximately 345 students in grades PK-03.
Is Eva Gordon Lower Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Eva Gordon Lower Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-03.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Eva Gordon Lower Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Eva Gordon Lower Elementary School is approximately 14.3:1 (24 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Eva Gordon Lower Elementary School?
At Eva Gordon Lower Elementary School, the student body is approximately 10% White, 1% Hispanic, 86% Black, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Eva Gordon Lower Elementary School?
Eva Gordon Lower Elementary School is overseen by South Pike School District in Pike County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.