Enrollment
232
Elementary
DISTRICT 297 · STATE 446
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MCCOMB SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 280288001061
Kennedy Elementary School
207 S MYRTLE STREET, MCCOMB, MS 39648 · (601) 684-2889 · Pike County
GRADES PK–KGELEMENTARY33-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL232 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 19% 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
13.9:1
17 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.2:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
232 students
DISTRICT 100% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 43 | 19% |
| Kindergarten | 189 | 81% |
Student demographics
21%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 20% · 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
39.6%
MS avg 45.9% . +0.5pp since 2023
Math
37.2%
MS avg 52.8% . +2.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the MAAP, Mississippi's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 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 up about 2 points.
MAAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.6% | 37.2% |
| 2023-24 | 39.1% | 34.8% |
% 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
37.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.1%
based on MS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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 Kennedy Elementary School
Kennedy Elementary School's state test result (37.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kennedy Elementary School this school | 232 | 100.0% | 37.7% |
| West Bolivar Elementary Rosedale | 242 | 100.0% | 25.3% |
| Okolona Elementary School OKOLONA | 238 | 100.0% | 44.1% |
| Isable Elementary School Jackson | 244 | 100.0% | 28.5% |
| Key Elementary School Jackson | 259 | 100.0% | 29.5% |
| A.W. James Elementary DREW | 219 | 100.0% | 57.6% |
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 Kennedy Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Mississippi | In Pike County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.7% | #358 of 428 | #4 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 37.2% | #316 of 439 ▲ 21 | #5 of 6 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.6% | #297 of 439 ▲ 29 | #4 of 6 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 232 | #389 of 453 | #4 of 6 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #114 of 408 | #2 of 6 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 20.7% | #334 of 409 | #5 of 6 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #83 of 444 | #2 of 6 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +3.1% | #70 of 90 | N/A |
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
232
+75 (+48%) vs 2020
-62% since 1990-91, when it was 610
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
was 39.3:1
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 | 232 | 16.7 | 13.9:1 | 100% (232) |
| 2023-24 | 225 | 19.8 | 11.3:1 | 100% (225) |
| 2022-23 | 224 | 23.1 | 9.7:1 | 100% (224) |
| 2020-21 | 157 | 4 | 39.3:1 | 100% (157) |
| 2017-18 | 225 | 8.4 | 26.8:1 | 100% (225) |
| 2015-16 | 188 | 11 | 17.1:1 | 100% (188) |
| 2010-11 | 253 | 17 | 14.9:1 | 89% (225) |
| 2000-01 | 474 | 30 | 15.8:1 | 79% (375) |
| 1990-91 | 610 | 31 | 19.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Kennedy Elementary School.
About Kennedy Elementary School
Families in MCCOMB, Mississippi, are served by Kennedy Elementary School, a low-enrollment elementary school. It educates 232 students in pre-K through kindergarten. The typical figure for elementary schools in Mississippi is about 446 students.
McComb School District counts 2,121 students in its 6 schools, and Kennedy Elementary School is one of them.
Black students make up 89% of enrollment at Kennedy Elementary School. The next largest groups are 6% White, 3% multiracial, and 2% Hispanic. In Pike County overall, about 54% of residents are Black. Pick two students at random and there is a 21% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school reports 16.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 13.9 students per teacher. That is 2.0 students per teacher below the 15.9:1 average for elementary schools in Mississippi. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 100% of students. That is 9 points above the 91% average for public schools in Pike County.
allk12 grades Kennedy Elementary School a C-. The grade compares the school only with Mississippi public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Kennedy Elementary School scores 37.7% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 44.1%.
In the county around the school, Pike County, the median household income is $43,814, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 15% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 23%. Pike County is home to 20 public schools and about 5,717 public school students.
McComb High School is the public school closest to Kennedy Elementary School, about 1.1 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Kennedy Elementary School at 6th of 8.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Town: Remote: in a town far from an urbanized area.
Kennedy Elementary School enrolled 157 in 2020-21 and 232 in 2024-25. Changes in grade configuration can produce shifts of this size. Students per teacher fell from 39.3 in 2020-21 to 13.9 in 2024-25.
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Pike County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
39,602
Census ACS
Median income
$43,814
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
15%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
23%
Below federal line
Schools in county
20
5,717 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in McComb School District
- McComb High SchoolHigh · 632 students
- Otken Elementary SchoolElementary · 458 students
- Denman Junior High SchoolMiddle · 312 students
- Higgins Middle SchoolMiddle · 287 students
- Summit Elementary SchoolElementary · 200 students
- BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY COMPLEXHigh
Other schools in MCCOMB
- McComb High SchoolHigh · 632 students
- Otken Elementary SchoolElementary · 458 students
- Denman Junior High SchoolMiddle · 312 students
- Higgins Middle SchoolMiddle · 287 students
- BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY COMPLEXHigh
- TAC ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLHigh
Other Kennedy Elementary schools
30 other US public schools in 17 states are named Kennedy Elementary. Kennedy Elementary School is the 28th largest of the 31.
- Kennedy Elementary SchoolWinder, GA · 764 students
- Kennedy ElementaryWILLMAR, MN · 672 students
- KENNEDY ELEMENTARYLAKEVILLE, MN · 638 students
- Kennedy ElementaryMadison, WI · 582 students
- Kennedy ElementaryStockton, CA · 511 students
Nearby schools
- McComb High School1.1 mi · 632
- Higgins Middle School1.2 mi · 287
- Denman Junior High School1.3 mi · 312
- Otken Elementary School1.8 mi · 458
- Summit Elementary School2.8 mi · 200
- North Pike Upper Elementary School3.4 mi · 317
Frequently asked questions
About Kennedy Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Kennedy Elementary School?
Kennedy Elementary School enrolls approximately 232 students in grades PK-KG.
What grades does Kennedy Elementary School serve?
Kennedy Elementary School serves grades PK-KG.
How many teachers does Kennedy Elementary School have?
Kennedy Elementary School employs 17 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Kennedy Elementary School?
Student demographics at Kennedy Elementary School are roughly 6% White, 2% Hispanic, 89% Black, 3% Two or more.
Is Kennedy Elementary School public or private?
Kennedy Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by McComb School District.
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