Enrollment
193
Elementary
DISTRICT 262 · STATE 446
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PASCAGOULA-GAUTIER SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 280348000676
Jackson Elem
3203 Lanier Street, Pascagoula, MS 39581 · (228) 938-6554 · Jackson County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL193 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 31% 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.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
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
14.7:1
13 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.7:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
83%
160 students
DISTRICT 75% · STATE 80%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 41 | 21% |
| Grade 1 | 42 | 22% |
| Grade 2 | 43 | 22% |
| Grade 3 | 41 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 26 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (41) is 58% larger than its 4th grade class (26).
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · 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
53.3%
MS avg 45.9% . -0.1pp since 2023
Math
43.3%
MS avg 52.8% . -3.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the MAAP, Mississippi's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Mississippi schools, those numbers are about 46 and 53. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
MAAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.3% | 43.3% |
| 2023-24 | 53.4% | 46.6% |
% Proficient + Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: MAAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
49.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.7%
based on MS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% typical for Mississippi schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Mississippi's top nor bottom 10%.
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 Jackson Elem
Jackson Elem's state test result (49.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jackson Elem this school | 193 | 82.9% | 49.1% |
| Nichols Elementary School Biloxi | 203 | 77.3% | 59.7% |
| Arlington Elem Pascagoula | 333 | 85.3% | 43.0% |
| Cherokee Elementary Pascagoula | 206 | 74.3% | 58.9% |
| Central Elementary Pascagoula | 245 | 79.6% | 62.5% |
| H. W. Byers Elementary HOLLY SPRINGS | 262 | 98.9% | 39.6% |
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 Jackson Elem ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Mississippi | In Jackson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 49.1% | #272 of 428 | #17 of 20 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 43.3% | #274 of 439 ▼ 14 | #17 of 21 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.3% | #178 of 439 ▲ 39 | #14 of 21 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 193 | #417 of 453 | #20 of 22 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 82.9% | #238 of 444 | #4 of 20 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -42.0% | #7 of 296 | #1 of 14 |
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
193
-40 (-17%) vs 2020
-41% since 1990-91, when it was 325
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
was 12.3:1
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 | 193 | 13.1 | 14.7:1 | 83% (160) |
| 2023-24 | 165 | 15 | 11.0:1 | 100% (165) |
| 2022-23 | 178 | 14.2 | 12.5:1 | 100% (178) |
| 2020-21 | 233 | 19 | 12.3:1 | 100% (233) |
| 2017-18 | 333 | 21.1 | 15.8:1 | 100% (333) |
| 2015-16 | 309 | 20 | 15.4:1 | 91% (282) |
| 2010-11 | 311 | 21 | 14.8:1 | 93% (289) |
| 2000-01 | 295 | 17 | 17.4:1 | 55% (162) |
| 1990-91 | 325 | 20 | 16.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Jackson Elem.
About Jackson Elem
The public elementary school Jackson Elem is located in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The school serves kindergarten through 4. Enrollment is 193 students. Elementary schools in Mississippi have about 446 students on average; enrollment here is 57% lower.
Jackson Elem belongs to Pascagoula-Gautier School District, a district of 17 schools and 6,579 students.
More than half of the students at Jackson Elem are Black (56%). The rest of enrollment is 24% Hispanic, 13% White, and 6% multiracial. Census estimates put the Black share of Jackson County's population at about 19%. The diversity index for Jackson Elem is 60%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Jackson Elem reports a ratio of 14.7 students per teacher, from 13.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school's 14.7:1 compares with an average of 15.9:1 for elementary schools in Mississippi. Lunch program data show 83% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The gap from the 59% average for public schools in Jackson County is 24 points.
Jackson Elem holds a C allk12 Grade, placing it above 31% of Mississippi public elementary schools.
On BeatsExpectations, Jackson Elem is 3.6 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Mississippi schools.
Census data for Jackson County show the median household earns about $66,201 a year, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Counting Jackson Elem, Jackson County has 46 public schools.
Jackson Elem is about 0.2 miles from William M Colmer Middle, its nearest public school. Jackson Elem has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools average 55.5% on proficiency, and Jackson Elem is below that at 49.1%.
Jackson Elem has an NCES locale of Suburb: Small.
The school's student count decreased 17% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. By 2024-25, the school had 14.7 students per teacher, compared with 12.3 in 2020-21.
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Jackson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
145,249
Census ACS
Median income
$66,201
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
27%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
46
22,712 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Pascagoula-Gautier School District
- Pascagoula HighHigh · 1,127 students
- Gautier HighHigh · 900 students
- William M Colmer MiddleMiddle · 532 students
- Trent LottMiddle · 524 students
- Gautier MiddleMiddle · 416 students
- Singing RiverMiddle · 416 students
Other schools in Pascagoula
- Pascagoula HighHigh · 1,127 students
- William M Colmer MiddleMiddle · 532 students
- Trent LottMiddle · 524 students
- Eastlawn ElemElementary · 337 students
- Arlington ElemElementary · 333 students
- Central ElementaryElementary · 245 students
Other Jackson Elementary schools
41 other US public schools in 20 states are named Jackson Elementary. Jackson Elem is the 39th largest of the 42.
- Jackson Elementary SchoolLawrenceville, GA · 1,430 students
- Jackson Elementary SchoolPLANO, TX · 705 students
- Jackson ElementarySHAKOPEE, MN · 683 students
- Jackson ElementaryRiverside, CA · 657 students
- Jackson Elementary SchoolMCALLEN, TX · 548 students
Nearby schools
- William M Colmer Middle0.2 mi · 532
- Cherokee Elementary0.6 mi · 206
- Eastlawn Elem0.8 mi · 337
- Jackson County Exceptional0.8 mi · 44
- Arlington Elem0.9 mi · 333
- Pascagoula High1.1 mi · 1,127
Frequently asked questions
About Jackson ElemHow many students attend Jackson Elem?
Jackson Elem enrolls approximately 193 students in grades KG-04.
Is Jackson Elem an elementary, middle, or high school?
Jackson Elem is an elementary school covering grades KG-04.
How many teachers does Jackson Elem have?
Jackson Elem employs 13 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.7:1.
What is the student diversity at Jackson Elem?
Student demographics at Jackson Elem are roughly 13% White, 24% Hispanic, 56% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Jackson Elem in?
Jackson Elem is part of Pascagoula-Gautier School District.
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