Eva Gordon Upper Elementary School

Eva Gordon Upper Elementary School is one of the compact junior highs in Magnolia, Mississippi, overseen by South Pike School District, with 236 students on its rolls from grades 4 through 6. By comparison, Mississippi's public schools average about 452 students each, so Eva Gordon Upper Elementary School sits 48% leaner than that benchmark.

South Pike School District comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,461 students; Eva Gordon Upper Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, Eva Gordon Upper Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (85%); the rest is composed of 9% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 54% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting Eva Gordon Upper Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Pike County indicate median household income runs about $43,814, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 23%. In all, Pike County runs 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,717 students), of which Eva Gordon Upper Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Eva Gordon Lower Elementary School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Eva Gordon Upper Elementary School.

Eva Gordon Upper Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Eva Gordon Upper Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 26% since 2018, when it stood at 319 (now 236). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 13% to 9%. Class-load math has fell: from 18.5:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 in 2025.

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