Friars Point Elementary

Friars Point Elementary is an elementary campus of very small scale in FRIARS POINT, Mississippi, one of the schools within Coahoma County School District, educateing 133 students in grades K through 6. By comparison, Mississippi's public schools average about 446 students each, so Friars Point Elementary sits 70% smaller than that benchmark.

Coahoma County School District runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,009 students. Friars Point Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Friars Point Elementary logs that 64% of the student body identifies as multiracial. Other groups include 31% Black, 5% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. Roughly 98% of students at Friars Point Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Friars Point Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.9%; this one delivers 40.1%.

Around the school, Coahoma County reports that median household earnings sit near $37,461, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 31%. In all, Coahoma County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,518 students), of which Friars Point Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Jonestown Elementary, around 10.5 miles off. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Friars Point Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 31.0%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Friars Point Elementary has shrank 19%, going from 164 students in 2018 to 133 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 97% to 31% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.

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