Jonestown Elementary

Jonestown Elementary is one of the micro-enrollment K-5 schools in JONESTOWN, Mississippi, part of Coahoma County School District, with 135 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. By comparison, Mississippi's public schools average about 446 students each, so Jonestown Elementary sits 70% smaller than that benchmark.

Coahoma County School District runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,009 students. Jonestown Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Jonestown Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (90%). Other groups include 10% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 74% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.9:1, putting Jonestown Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 99% of students at Jonestown Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Around the school, census data for Coahoma County shows the typical household earns roughly $37,461 per year, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 31%. Across Coahoma County's 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,518 students), Jonestown Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Lyon Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 8.2 miles from this campus.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Jonestown Elementary has ticked down 42%, going from 234 students in 2018 to 135 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 100% to 90%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.