Laurel Magnet School Of The Arts

Laurel Magnet School Of The Arts operates as a tight-knit primary school in LAUREL, Mississippi, overseen by Laurel School District. Current enrollment sits at 323 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 28% below the state mean of about 446.

Laurel School District comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,620 students; Laurel Magnet School Of The Arts is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Laurel Magnet School Of The Arts reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (88%). Other groups include 4% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 29% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.9:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 100% of students at Laurel Magnet School Of The Arts qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Jones County's rate of about 76%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Laurel Magnet School Of The Arts ranks in the top 10% of Mississippi public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 44.1%; Laurel Magnet School Of The Arts posts 85.4%, +41.3 points above that line.

Across the wider county, census data for Jones County shows the typical household earns roughly $52,216 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Jones County's 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,313 students), Laurel Magnet School Of The Arts is one campus in the mix.

Laurel High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

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

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Laurel Magnet School Of The Arts has decreased 12%, going from 367 students in 2018 to 323 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 9% to 4% over that span.

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