Flowood Elementary

Flowood Elementary, a middle-of-the-pack primary school in Flowood, Mississippi, overseen by Rankin County School District, teaches 458 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 27 schools in Rankin County School District (18,196 students total), Flowood Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Flowood Elementary reports that the largest single group is White at 41%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 35% Black, 10% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 6% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 71%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. Around 51% 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 Rankin County indicate median household income runs about $79,357, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Rankin County runs 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,454 students), of which Flowood Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Northwest Elementary, around 3.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Flowood Elementary has shrank 31%, going from 661 students in 2018 to 458 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 56% to 41% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

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