Martin Bluff

Martin Bluff is one of the middle-of-the-pack elementary campuss in Gautier, Mississippi, overseen by Pascagoula-Gautier School District, with 410 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4.

Pascagoula-Gautier School District runs 17 schools in total, collectively educating 6,579 students. Martin Bluff is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Martin Bluff reports that the most-represented group is White (37%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 34% Black, 17% Hispanic, 11% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 67% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Martin Bluff logs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.9:1, putting Martin Bluff tighter than the state norm the norm. About 72% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Jackson County's rate of about 59%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Jackson County) shows that median household income runs about $66,201, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Jackson County runs 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,712 students), of which Martin Bluff is one.

Singing River is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.0 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 5%: 430 students in 2018 compared to 410 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 40% to 34%. Class-load math has rose: from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 in 2025.

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