Houston Upper Elementary

Houston Upper Elementary is a reasonably sized elementary school in Houston, Mississippi, one of the schools within Chickasaw County School District. The school instructs 387 students in grades 3 through 5.

Chickasaw County School District comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,197 students; Houston Upper Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Houston Upper Elementary records that the most-represented group is White (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 34% Black, 13% multiracial, 9% Hispanic.

In terms of school funding signals, Houston Upper Elementary reports 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. An estimated 78% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

In the surrounding community, census data for Chickasaw County shows the typical household earns roughly $43,586 per year, about 12% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 19%. Across Chickasaw County's 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,709 students), Houston Upper Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Houston Lower Elementary School, around 0.9 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools.

Houston Upper Elementary operates from a countryside location.

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