Kirkpatrick Health And Wellness Magnet School

Kirkpatrick Health And Wellness Magnet School is one of the compact K-5 schools in CLARKSDALE, Mississippi, operated by Clarksdale Municipal School District, with 266 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, Mississippi's public schools average about 446 students each, so Kirkpatrick Health And Wellness Magnet School sits 40% smaller than that benchmark.

Kirkpatrick Health And Wellness Magnet School is one of 7 schools operated by Clarksdale Municipal School District, a district that serves 1,857 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Kirkpatrick Health And Wellness Magnet School logs that 86% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 9% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Coahoma County as a whole is about 74% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Kirkpatrick Health And Wellness Magnet School has 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. Roughly 96% of students at Kirkpatrick Health And Wellness Magnet School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Kirkpatrick Health And Wellness Magnet School is in the bottom 10% of Mississippi public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 46.0%; Kirkpatrick Health And Wellness Magnet School posts 26.5%, -19.5 points below that line.

In the broader community, census data for Coahoma County shows the typical household earns roughly $37,461 per year, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 31%. Kirkpatrick Health And Wellness Magnet School is one of 15 public schools in Coahoma County (combined enrollment of about 3,518 students).

The closest other public school is Clarksdale Collegiate Public Charter School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kirkpatrick Health And Wellness Magnet School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 41.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 3%: 273 students in 2018 compared to 266 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 15% to 1% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 18.1:1 in 2025.

On this page, members of the Kirkpatrick Health And Wellness Magnet School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.