Gary Road Intermediate

Gary Road Intermediate is a large primary school in Byram, Mississippi, operated by Hinds County School District. The school works with 680 students in grades 3 through 5. That puts it 52% larger than the typical public school in Mississippi, which averages around 446 students.

Hinds County School District comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 4,940 students; Gary Road Intermediate is among them.

Looking at the student body, Gary Road Intermediate reports that 90% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 6% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Hinds County as a whole is about 72% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Gary Road Intermediate records 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.9:1, putting Gary Road Intermediate tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 79% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Hinds County (around 88%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Gary Road Intermediate sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 54.5%; this one delivers 56.1%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Hinds County indicate median household income runs about $49,402, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. Gary Road Intermediate is one of 84 public schools in Hinds County (combined enrollment of about 32,870 students).

Nearest neighbor: Gary Road Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a rural site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 26%: 918 students in 2018 compared to 680 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Gary Road Intermediate community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.