LESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

LESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the minimally staffed K-5 schools in JACKSON, Mississippi, one of the schools within JACKSON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 168 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, Mississippi's public schools average about 446 students each, so LESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 62% smaller than that benchmark.

JACKSON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 2,895 students. LESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, LESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that nearly all students (94%) are Black. The remainder breaks down as 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 72%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Hinds County runs at roughly 88%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Hinds County) logs that median household income runs about $49,402, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Hinds County's 84 public schools (combined enrollment of about 32,870 students), LESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Reimagine Prep is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 6-year window. Over the past 6-year window, the student count contracted 54%: 369 students in 2018 compared to 168 in 2024. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

Inside the community feed, the feed for LESTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.