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If you could change one rule at HOPE SULLIVAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, what would it be?
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Enrollment
563
Elementary
DISTRICT 681 · STATE 446
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DESOTO COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 280132000197
Hope Sullivan Elementary School
7985 Southaven Circle W, Southaven, MS 38671 · (662) 393-2919 · DeSoto County
GRADES PK–02ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL563 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 11% of Mississippi public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Mississippi public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.3:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.3:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
72%
407 students
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 80%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 27 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 175 | 31% |
| Grade 1 | 193 | 34% |
| Grade 2 | 168 | 30% |
Student demographics
61%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MAAP 2024-25 . % Proficient + AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
29.6%
MS avg 45.9% . -15.5pp since 2023
Math
35.1%
MS avg 52.8% . -12.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the MAAP, Mississippi's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 35 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Mississippi schools, those numbers are about 46 and 53. Reading and writing scores are down about 16 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 12 points.
MAAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 29.6% | 35.1% |
| 2023-24 | 45.1% | 47.2% |
% Proficient + Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: MAAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of MS schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
39.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.0%
based on MS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-18.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 58% typical for Mississippi schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Hope Sullivan Elementary School
Hope Sullivan Elementary School's state test result (39.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hope Sullivan Elementary School this school | 563 | 72.3% | 39.3% |
| Horn Lake Elementary School HORN LAKE | 520 | 72.9% | 39.0% |
| Greenbrook Elementary School Southaven | 556 | 70.0% | 55.7% |
| Southaven Elementary School Southaven | 681 | 78.4% | 45.3% |
| Walls Elementary School Walls | 722 | 69.0% | 45.4% |
| Joyner Elementary School Tupelo | 444 | 71.8% | 55.9% |
Matched among Mississippi elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Hope Sullivan Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Mississippi | In DeSoto County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.3% | #346 of 428 | #21 of 23 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 35.1% | #332 of 439 ▼ 75 | #19 of 23 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 29.6% | #379 of 439 ▼ 99 | #21 of 23 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 563 | #112 of 453 | #17 of 23 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.3:1 | #299 of 408 | #12 of 23 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.3% | #73 of 409 | #13 of 23 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 72.3% | #307 of 444 | #5 of 23 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.8% | #193 of 296 | #6 of 15 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
563
+67 (+14%) vs 2020
-33% since 1990-91, when it was 840
Student : Teacher
16.3:1
was 16.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 563 | 34.5 | 16.3:1 | 72% (407) |
| 2023-24 | 553 | 46.5 | 11.9:1 | 74% (410) |
| 2022-23 | 548 | 47.9 | 11.4:1 | 99% (545) |
| 2020-21 | 496 | 30 | 16.5:1 | 99% (493) |
| 2017-18 | 624 | 36.1 | 17.3:1 | 81% (508) |
| 2015-16 | 687 | 39 | 17.6:1 | 78% (536) |
| 2010-11 | 629 | 33 | 19.1:1 | 74% (464) |
| 2000-01 | 919 | 46 | 20.0:1 | 28% (258) |
| 1990-91 | 840 | 39 | 21.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hope Sullivan Elementary School.
About Hope Sullivan Elementary School
Hope Sullivan Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school. Its address is in Southaven, Mississippi. Enrollment is 563 students in 2024-25, and the school serves pre-K through 2. The average for elementary schools in Mississippi is about 446 students, so this school is 26% bigger than average.
Hope Sullivan Elementary School is one school in DeSoto County School District, a system of 39 schools with 34,934 students.
At 56%, Black students outnumber all other groups at Hope Sullivan Elementary School combined. After that, the student body is 19% White, 17% Hispanic, and 7% multiracial. Among all residents of DeSoto County, the Black share is about 33%. By the diversity index, Hope Sullivan Elementary School comes in at 61%.
With 34.5 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at Hope Sullivan Elementary School was 16.3:1. Across elementary schools in Mississippi, the average ratio is about 15.9:1. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 72%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in DeSoto County is 49%.
allk12 grades Hope Sullivan Elementary School a D. The grade compares the school only with Mississippi public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
On BeatsExpectations, which compares test results with what a school's student poverty level would predict, Hope Sullivan Elementary School ranks in the bottom 10% in Mississippi. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 39.3%, against a prediction of 58.0%.
Federal survey data for DeSoto County show that median household income is about $85,297, roughly 29% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. Hope Sullivan Elementary School is among the 43 public schools in DeSoto County.
Of nearby public schools, Southaven Elementary School is the closest, at about 0.8 miles. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Of 7 schools in the immediate area with test results, Hope Sullivan Elementary School ranks 4th on average proficiency.
Hope Sullivan Elementary School falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Hope Sullivan Elementary School saw enrollment rise 14% between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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DeSoto County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
191,301
Census ACS
Median income
$85,297
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
29%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
43
34,934 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in DeSoto County School District
- DeSoto Central High SchoolHigh · 2,004 students
- Southaven High SchoolHigh · 1,876 students
- Hernando High SchoolHigh · 1,529 students
- Southaven Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,423 students
- DeSoto Central Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,388 students
- Lewisburg High SchoolHigh · 1,330 students
Other schools in Southaven
- DeSoto Central High SchoolHigh · 2,004 students
- Southaven High SchoolHigh · 1,876 students
- Southaven Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,423 students
- DeSoto Central Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,388 students
- Southaven Intermediate SchoolElementary · 1,046 students
- DeSoto Central ElementaryElementary · 831 students
Nearby schools
- Southaven Elementary School0.8 mi · 681
- Southaven Middle School1.0 mi · 1,423
- Southaven High School1.1 mi · 1,876
- Horn Lake Elementary School1.9 mi · 520
- Horn Lake Middle School2.0 mi · 948
- Holmes Road Elementary2.0 mi · 708
Frequently asked questions
About Hope Sullivan Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Hope Sullivan Elementary School?
Hope Sullivan Elementary School enrolls approximately 563 students in grades PK-02.
Is Hope Sullivan Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Hope Sullivan Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-02.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Hope Sullivan Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Hope Sullivan Elementary School is approximately 16.3:1 (35 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Hope Sullivan Elementary School?
Hope Sullivan Elementary School reports a student body of 19% White, 17% Hispanic, 56% Black, 1% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is Hope Sullivan Elementary School public or private?
Hope Sullivan Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by DeSoto County School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.