Smilow Collegiate

Smilow Collegiate is one of the mid-tier K-5 schools in Jackson, Mississippi, one of the schools within Joel E. Smilow Collegiate, with 547 students on its rolls from grades K through 4. Compared to the state average of about 446 students per school, that is 23% above typical.

Joel E. Smilow Collegiate is the operating authority for Smilow Collegiate, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On the student-mix side, Smilow Collegiate reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (97%). That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 72%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Smilow Collegiate has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.9:1, putting Smilow Collegiate higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 100% of students at Smilow Collegiate qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Hinds County (around 88%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Across the wider county, Hinds County reports that the typical household earns roughly $49,402 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. Smilow Collegiate is one of 84 public schools in Hinds County (combined enrollment of about 32,870 students).

Smilow Prep is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting. Smilow Collegiate is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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