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What's one thing LAKE CORMORANT ELEMENTARY gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
635
Elementary
DISTRICT 681 · STATE 446
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DESOTO COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 280132001319
Lake Cormorant Elementary
3285 WILSON MILL RD WEST, LAKE CORMORANT, MS 38641 · (662) 781-1135 · DeSoto County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL635 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 60% of Mississippi public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats 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
17.2:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.3:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
66%
418 students
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 80%
Community
1
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 | 15 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 74 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 101 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 93 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 112 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 115 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 125 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (74) is 41% smaller than its 5th grade class (125).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · 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
52.3%
MS avg 45.9% . -8.8pp since 2023
Math
54.3%
MS avg 52.8% . -6.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the MAAP, Mississippi's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Mississippi schools, those numbers are about 46 and 53. Reading and writing scores are down about 9 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 6 points.
MAAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 52.3% | 54.3% |
| 2023-24 | 61.1% | 60.7% |
% 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
63.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.3%
based on MS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% 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 Lake Cormorant Elementary
Lake Cormorant Elementary's state test result (63.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Cormorant Elementary this school | 635 | 65.8% | 63.0% |
| Pearl Upper School PEARL | 608 | 68.9% | 65.2% |
| Northside Elementary PEARL | 665 | 69.6% | 68.0% |
| Pearl Lower Elementary PEARL | 763 | 69.9% | 70.6% |
| Dixie Attendance Center Hattiesburg | 487 | 66.5% | 68.4% |
| Olive Branch Intermediate School Olive Branch | 472 | 62.9% | 52.8% |
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 Lake Cormorant Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Mississippi | In DeSoto County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 63.0% | #143 of 428 | #10 of 23 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.3% | #187 of 439 ▼ 35 | #10 of 23 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.3% | #182 of 439 ▼ 39 | #13 of 23 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 635 | #83 of 453 | #13 of 23 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.2:1 | #354 of 408 | #19 of 23 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.6% | #49 of 409 | #9 of 23 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 65.8% | #356 of 444 | #9 of 23 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.3% | #267 of 296 | #14 of 15 |
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
635
+9 (+1%) vs 2020
-14% since 2010-11, when it was 735
Student : Teacher
17.2:1
was 16.1:1
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 | 635 | 37 | 17.2:1 | 66% (418) |
| 2023-24 | 639 | 47.5 | 13.5:1 | 66% (421) |
| 2022-23 | 647 | 46.2 | 14.0:1 | 100% (644) |
| 2020-21 | 626 | 39 | 16.1:1 | 100% (623) |
| 2017-18 | 657 | 38.2 | 17.2:1 | 70% (458) |
| 2015-16 | 708 | 40 | 17.7:1 | 77% (543) |
| 2010-11 | 735 | 39 | 18.9:1 | 72% (531) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lake Cormorant Elementary.
About Lake Cormorant Elementary
Lake Cormorant Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school in LAKE CORMORANT, Mississippi. Grades offered run from pre-K through 5, with 635 students enrolled. For comparison, elementary schools in Mississippi average about 446 students.
DeSoto County School District is made up of 39 schools with 34,934 students in all.
White students form the largest group at Lake Cormorant Elementary, 48% of enrollment. Next come 32% Black, 12% Hispanic, and 8% multiracial. That compares with about 57% White among all DeSoto County residents. By the diversity index, Lake Cormorant Elementary comes in at 65%.
Staffing totals 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 17.2:1. For comparison, elementary schools in Mississippi average 15.9:1. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 66%. The 49% average for public schools in DeSoto County is 17 points lower.
The allk12 Grade for Lake Cormorant Elementary is B. Compared with Mississippi public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 60% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Lake Cormorant Elementary is 1.7 points above the average proficiency rate on state tests predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 63.0% actual, 61.3% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Mississippi.
Among DeSoto County residents, median household income is about $85,297, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 8% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 43 public schools in DeSoto County, with a combined enrollment of about 34,934.
Of nearby public schools, Lake Cormorant Middle School is the closest, at about 0.2 miles. The count of other public schools within five miles is 3. Its average proficiency rate of 63.0% is above the 45.0% average for nearby schools.
Federal records code the school's setting as Rural: Fringe.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, enrollment moved from 626 to 635, a small change. Its ratio of students to teachers was 16.1:1 in 2020-21, and 17.2:1 in 2024-25.
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DeSoto County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
191,301
Census ACS
Median income
$85,297
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
29%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
43
34,934 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in DeSoto County School District
- DeSoto Central High SchoolHigh · 2,004 students
- Southaven High SchoolHigh · 1,876 students
- Hernando High SchoolHigh · 1,529 students
- Southaven Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,423 students
- DeSoto Central Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,388 students
- Lewisburg High SchoolHigh · 1,330 students
Other schools in LAKE CORMORANT
- Lake Cormorant High SchoolHigh · 991 students
- Lake Cormorant Middle SchoolMiddle · 707 students
Nearby schools
- Lake Cormorant Middle School0.2 mi · 707
- Lake Cormorant High School0.6 mi · 991
- Walls Elementary School3.1 mi · 722
- Horn Lake Intermediate School7.1 mi · 914
- Horn Lake High School7.3 mi · 1,271
- Shadow Oaks Elementary School7.4 mi · 423
Frequently asked questions
About Lake Cormorant ElementaryHow large is Lake Cormorant Elementary?
Lake Cormorant Elementary enrolls approximately 635 students in grades PK-05.
Is Lake Cormorant Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Lake Cormorant Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Lake Cormorant Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Lake Cormorant Elementary is approximately 17.2:1 (37 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Lake Cormorant Elementary?
At Lake Cormorant Elementary, the student body is approximately 48% White, 12% Hispanic, 32% Black, 0% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is Lake Cormorant Elementary public or private?
Lake Cormorant Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by DeSoto County School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.