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Enrollment
524
Elementary
DISTRICT 567 · STATE 446
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HARRISON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 280177000292
Lyman Elementary
14222 OLD HIGHWAY 49, GULFPORT, MS 39503 · (228) 832-2257 · Harrison County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL524 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 97% 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.
- ABeats 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
17.5:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.5:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
65%
342 students
DISTRICT 81% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 72 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 78 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 76 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 85 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 79 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 74 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 60 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (72) is 20% larger than its 6th grade class (60).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
78.0%
MS avg 45.9% . +4.6pp since 2023
Math
76.2%
MS avg 52.8% . +0.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the MAAP, Mississippi's statewide test, about 78 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 76 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
MAAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 78.0% | 76.2% |
| 2023-24 | 73.4% | 75.7% |
% Proficient + Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: MAAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of MS schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
81.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.6%
based on MS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+20.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 82% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 62% typical for Mississippi schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 20 points, placing it in Mississippi's top 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 Lyman Elementary
Lyman Elementary's state test result (81.7% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lyman Elementary this school | 524 | 65.3% | 81.7% |
| Waveland Elementary School WAVELAND | 460 | 69.8% | 67.9% |
| Eupora Elementary School Eupora | 401 | 66.1% | 68.9% |
| Dixie Attendance Center Hattiesburg | 487 | 66.5% | 68.4% |
| Anderson Elementary School Booneville | 551 | 71.9% | 69.5% |
| Columbia Primary School Columbia | 448 | 70.1% | 70.2% |
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 Lyman Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Mississippi | In Harrison County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 81.7% | #19 of 428 | #3 of 30 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 76.2% | #45 of 439 ▲ 10 | #6 of 30 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 78.0% | #17 of 439 ▲ 30 | #3 of 30 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 524 | #133 of 453 | #12 of 30 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.5:1 | #366 of 408 | #28 of 29 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.2% | #118 of 409 | #15 of 29 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 65.3% | #360 of 444 | #24 of 30 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.9% | #182 of 296 | #15 of 24 |
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
524
-11 (-2%) vs 2020
-29% since 1990-91, when it was 737
Student : Teacher
17.5:1
was 16.2:1
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 | 524 | 30 | 17.5:1 | 65% (342) |
| 2023-24 | 509 | 34.4 | 14.8:1 | 66% (334) |
| 2022-23 | 490 | 34.8 | 14.1:1 | 99% (487) |
| 2020-21 | 535 | 33 | 16.2:1 | 99% (532) |
| 2017-18 | 588 | 33.7 | 17.4:1 | 74% (437) |
| 2015-16 | 611 | 35 | 17.5:1 | 72% (441) |
| 2010-11 | 590 | 31 | 19.0:1 | 74% (434) |
| 2000-01 | 506 | 27 | 18.7:1 | 55% (280) |
| 1990-91 | 737 | 36 | 20.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lyman Elementary.
About Lyman Elementary
The public elementary school Lyman Elementary is located in GULFPORT, Mississippi. The school had 524 students in kindergarten through 6 in 2024-25.
Harrison County School District oversees Lyman Elementary and 21 other schools, with 14,253 students in total.
White students account for 59% of enrollment at Lyman Elementary. Other groups make up 28% Black, 6% multiracial, and 5% Hispanic. County-wide, about 62% of residents are White. Lyman Elementary has a diversity index of 56%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Teachers at the school number 30 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 17.5:1. The 15.9:1 average for elementary schools in Mississippi is lower than this school's figure. Roughly 65% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Harrison County average 74%.
Measured against Mississippi public elementary schools, Lyman Elementary receives an A+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Given its lunch-eligibility share, the predicted average proficiency rate on state tests for Lyman Elementary is 61.6%. It actually posts 81.7%, which is 20.1 points higher and in the top 10% of Mississippi schools.
In the county around the school, Harrison County, median household income is about $59,479, about 28% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 13%. A total of 55 public schools operate in Harrison County, serving about 30,521 students.
The closest other public school is Harrison Central High, about 1.8 miles away. There are 7 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools average 59.7% on proficiency, and Lyman Elementary is above that at 81.7%.
In the federal locale system, Lyman Elementary is coded City: Small, for schools inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment in 2024-25 was 524, close to the 535 recorded in 2020-21. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 16.2:1; by 2024-25 it was 17.5:1.
Topics for discussion here include sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Harrison County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
210,891
Census ACS
Median income
$59,479
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
55
30,521 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Harrison County School District
- Harrison Central HighHigh · 1,483 students
- D'Iberville HighHigh · 1,478 students
- West Harrison HighHigh · 1,216 students
- CREEKBEND ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLEElementary · 996 students
- NORTH GULFPORT ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLElementary · 921 students
- North Woolmarket Elementary and Middle SchoolElementary · 851 students
Other schools in GULFPORT
- Gulfport High SchoolHigh · 1,702 students
- Harrison Central HighHigh · 1,483 students
- West Harrison HighHigh · 1,216 students
- NORTH GULFPORT ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLElementary · 921 students
- Bayou View MiddleMiddle · 827 students
- West Harrison MiddleMiddle · 650 students
Other Lyman Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 5 states are named Lyman Elementary. Lyman Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 5.
- Lyman ElementaryLyman, SC · 750 students
- Lyman Elementary SchoolLyman, ME · 241 students
- Lyman Elementary SchoolLyman, WA · 185 students
- Lyman Elementary - 04Kennebec, SD · 171 students
Nearby schools
- Harrison Central High1.8 mi · 1,483
- Three Rivers Elementary2.6 mi · 492
- Orange Grove Elementary2.7 mi · 346
- Harrison Central Elementary3.0 mi · 465
- River Oaks Elementary3.7 mi · 487
- Bel-Aire Elementary3.8 mi · 598
Frequently asked questions
About Lyman ElementaryHow large is Lyman Elementary?
Lyman Elementary enrolls approximately 524 students in grades KG-06.
Is Lyman Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Lyman Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-06.
How many teachers does Lyman Elementary have?
Lyman Elementary employs 30 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.5:1.
What is the student diversity at Lyman Elementary?
Student demographics at Lyman Elementary are roughly 59% White, 5% Hispanic, 28% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Lyman Elementary?
Lyman Elementary is overseen by Harrison County School District in Harrison County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.