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Which teacher or staff member at LONGLEAF ELEMENTARY deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
787
Elementary
DISTRICT 622 · STATE 446
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAMAR COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 280240001395
Longleaf Elementary
5279 W. 4th Street, Hattiesburg, MS 39402 · (601) 261-6892 · Lamar County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL787 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 68% of Mississippi public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
14.4:1
55 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
57%
445 students
DISTRICT 58% · 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 | 46 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 120 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 137 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 112 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 107 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 128 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 137 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (120) is 12% smaller than its 5th grade class (137).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · 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
69.6%
MS avg 45.9% . +1.5pp since 2023
Math
57.7%
MS avg 52.8% . -3.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the MAAP, Mississippi's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Mississippi schools, those numbers are about 46 and 53. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
MAAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 69.6% | 57.7% |
| 2023-24 | 68.1% | 61.3% |
% 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
68.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
66.0%
based on MS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% 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 Longleaf Elementary
Longleaf Elementary's state test result (68.6% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Longleaf Elementary this school | 787 | 56.5% | 68.6% |
| Oak Grove Elementary Hattiesburg | 758 | 62.0% | 67.2% |
| Bramlett Elementary School Oxford | 715 | 53.6% | 74.2% |
| Clinton Park Elementary School Clinton | 746 | 50.4% | 79.8% |
| Della Davidson Elementary School Oxford | 704 | 44.6% | 74.2% |
| Sudduth Elementary School STARKVILLE | 920 | 67.9% | 44.5% |
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 Longleaf Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Mississippi | In Lamar County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 68.6% | #97 of 428 | #2 of 8 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.7% | #165 of 439 ▼ 20 | #5 of 8 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.6% | #44 of 439 ▲ 41 | #2 of 8 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 787 | #36 of 453 | #3 of 8 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #153 of 408 | #6 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.7% | #47 of 409 | #2 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 56.5% | #388 of 444 | #5 of 8 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +5.5% | #56 of 90 | N/A |
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
787
+108 (+16%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
was 13.3:1
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 | 787 | 54.8 | 14.4:1 | 57% (445) |
| 2023-24 | 751 | 65.1 | 11.5:1 | 56% (420) |
| 2022-23 | 712 | 61.9 | 11.5:1 | 100% (709) |
| 2020-21 | 679 | 51 | 13.3:1 | 100% (676) |
| 2017-18 | 746 | 49.3 | 15.1:1 | 54% (406) |
| 2015-16 | 748 | 45 | 16.6:1 | 54% (405) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Longleaf Elementary.
About Longleaf Elementary
Hattiesburg, Mississippi, is home to Longleaf Elementary, a high-enrollment elementary school. It reported 787 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. By comparison, elementary schools in Mississippi enroll about 446 students on average.
District-wide, Lamar County School District has 15 schools and 10,318 students.
The biggest share of students at Longleaf Elementary, 45%, is Black. Next come 37% White, 7% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, and 4% Asian. That compares with about 22% Black among all Lamar County residents. The diversity index for Longleaf Elementary is 65%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Longleaf Elementary has 54.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 14.4:1. The school's 14.4:1 compares with an average of 15.9:1 for elementary schools in Mississippi. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 57%. Public schools in Lamar County average a similar 55%.
On the allk12 Grade, Longleaf Elementary lands at B+, ahead of 68% of Mississippi public elementary schools.
On BeatsExpectations, Longleaf Elementary is 2.6 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Mississippi schools.
The school's county is Lamar County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $70,909 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 35% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. Longleaf Elementary shares Lamar County with 16 other public schools.
The closest school to Longleaf Elementary is Oak Grove High School, located about 2.6 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Longleaf Elementary. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, Longleaf Elementary ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
Locale: Suburb: Small. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment figures show a gain of 108 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25. Its ratio of students to teachers was 13.3:1 in 2020-21, and 14.4:1 in 2024-25.
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Lamar County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
65,713
Census ACS
Median income
$70,909
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
17
10,318 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lamar County School District
- Oak Grove High SchoolHigh · 1,750 students
- Oak Grove Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,160 students
- Bellevue ElementaryElementary · 1,145 students
- Sumrall Elementary SchoolElementary · 960 students
- Oak Grove ElementaryElementary · 758 students
- Sumrall High SchoolHigh · 616 students
Other schools in Hattiesburg
- Oak Grove High SchoolHigh · 1,750 students
- Oak Grove Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,160 students
- Bellevue ElementaryElementary · 1,145 students
- Hattiesburg High SchoolHigh · 1,014 students
- Oak Grove ElementaryElementary · 758 students
- Thames ElementaryElementary · 619 students
Other Longleaf Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 2 states are named Longleaf Elementary. Longleaf Elementary is the largest of the 4.
- LONGLEAF ELEMENTARY SCHOOLNEW PORT RICHEY, FL · 601 students
- LONGLEAF ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMELBOURNE, FL · 578 students
- LONGLEAF ELEMENTARY SCHOOLPENSACOLA, FL · 545 students
Nearby schools
- Oak Grove High School2.6 mi · 1,750
- Rawls Springs Attendance Center3.0 mi · 214
- Thames Elementary3.6 mi · 619
- Grace Christian Elementary3.8 mi · 367
- Oak Grove Elementary4.0 mi · 758
- Woodley Elementary4.2 mi · 422
Frequently asked questions
About Longleaf ElementaryHow many students attend Longleaf Elementary?
Longleaf Elementary enrolls approximately 787 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Longleaf Elementary serve?
Longleaf Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Longleaf Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Longleaf Elementary is approximately 14.4:1 (55 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Longleaf Elementary?
Student demographics at Longleaf Elementary are roughly 37% White, 6% Hispanic, 45% Black, 4% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is Longleaf Elementary public or private?
Longleaf Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Lamar County School District.
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