Lewisburg Elementary School

Set in Olive Branch, Mississippi, Lewisburg Elementary School is a mid-tier K-5 school, operated by DeSoto County School District. It serves 604 students across grades 2 through 3. Compared to the state average of about 446 students per school, that is 35% above typical.

DeSoto County School District runs 39 schools in total, collectively educating 34,934 students. Lewisburg Elementary School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Lewisburg Elementary School records that 73% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 14% Black, 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 57% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 25% of students at Lewisburg Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against DeSoto County (around 49%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lewisburg Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 81.7%, the actual is 80.0%, a residual of -1.7 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for DeSoto County indicate the typical household earns roughly $85,297 per year, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, DeSoto County runs 43 public schools (combined enrollment of about 34,934 students), of which Lewisburg Elementary School is one.

Lewisburg Primary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 5 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), Lewisburg Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 76.9%.

Lewisburg Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lewisburg Elementary School has ticked down 21%, going from 766 students in 2018 to 604 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 86% to 73% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 today.

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