Hazlehurst Elementary

Hazlehurst Elementary operates as a moderately sized elementary school in HAZLEHURST, Mississippi, part of Hazlehurst City School District. Current enrollment sits at 643 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Mississippi's public schools average about 446 students each, so Hazlehurst Elementary sits 44% above that benchmark.

Within Hazlehurst City School District, which oversees 3 schools and 1,320 students, Hazlehurst Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Hazlehurst Elementary shows that the largest single group is Black, at 74% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 21% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

On the resource side, Hazlehurst Elementary lists 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Hazlehurst Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.4%, the actual is 42.2%, a residual of -2.1 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Copiah County put the typical household earns roughly $49,089 per year, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across Copiah County's 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,397 students), Hazlehurst Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Hazlehurst Middle School, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hazlehurst Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 52.4%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 18%: 785 students in 2018 compared to 643 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment decreased from 87% to 74% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 24.4:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 in 2025.

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