Jackson Elem

Set in Pascagoula, Mississippi, Jackson Elem is a modestly sized elementary school, part of Pascagoula-Gautier School District. It serves 193 students across grades K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 57% below the state mean of about 446.

Within Pascagoula-Gautier School District, which oversees 17 schools and 6,579 students, Jackson Elem is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Jackson Elem logs that 56% of the student body identifies as Black. Beyond that, the school reports 24% Hispanic, 13% White, 6% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. Roughly 83% of students at Jackson Elem qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Jackson County runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

In the broader community, census data for Jackson County shows the typical household earns roughly $66,201 per year, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Jackson County runs 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,712 students), of which Jackson Elem is one.

The closest other public school is William M Colmer Middle, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Jackson Elem has ticked down 42%, going from 333 students in 2018 to 193 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 49% to 56% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 in 2025.

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