Isable Elementary School

Isable Elementary School operates as a cozy elementary campus in Jackson, Mississippi, part of Jackson Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 244 students spanning grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 446 students per school, that is 45% below typical.

Jackson Public Schools runs 35 schools in total, collectively educating 16,870 students. Isable Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Isable Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (95%). By comparison, Hinds County as a whole is about 72% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Hinds County runs at roughly 88%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Zooming out to the county, Hinds County reports that the typical household earns roughly $49,402 per year, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Hinds County runs 84 public schools (combined enrollment of about 32,870 students), of which Isable Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Jim Hill High School, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 29%: 344 students in 2018 compared to 244 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 16.5:1 today.

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