Falkner Attendance Center

Falkner Attendance Center is an elementary school of reasonably sized scale in Falkner, Mississippi, run under North Tippah School District, teacheing 476 students in grades pre-K through 13.

Within North Tippah School District, which oversees 3 schools and 1,220 students, Falkner Attendance Center is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Falkner Attendance Center logs that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 9% Black, 6% multiracial, 3% Hispanic.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.9:1, putting Falkner Attendance Center tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 82% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Falkner Attendance Center sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.4%; this one delivers 50.2%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Tippah County put the typical household earns roughly $52,542 per year, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Across Tippah County's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,623 students), Falkner Attendance Center is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Chalybeate Elementary, roughly 7.3 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 5 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Falkner Attendance Center ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 61.4%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

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