Mannsdale Upper Elementary

Mannsdale Upper Elementary operates as a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in Madison, Mississippi, overseen by Madison County Schools. Current enrollment sits at 578 students spanning grades 3 through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 30% above the state mean of about 446.

Madison County Schools runs 21 schools in total, collectively educating 12,926 students. Mannsdale Upper Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mannsdale Upper Elementary shows that White students make up the majority at 72%. The remainder reads as 19% Black, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Madison County as a whole is about 55% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. Roughly 14% of students at Mannsdale Upper Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Madison County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Mannsdale Upper Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 87.5%, the actual is 85.0%, a residual of -2.5 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Madison County indicate the typical household earns roughly $83,441 per year, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Madison County's 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,432 students), Mannsdale Upper Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Mannsdale Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mannsdale Upper Elementary at 1st of 4; the average score across the group is 78.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mannsdale Upper Elementary has fell 8%, going from 626 students in 2018 to 578 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.

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