McCoy Elementary School

McCoy Elementary School is a well-populated K-5 school in Yazoo City, Mississippi, part of MS Achievement SD Of Yazoo City. The school teaches 844 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Mississippi's public schools average about 446 students each, so McCoy Elementary School sits 89% larger than that benchmark.

MS Achievement SD Of Yazoo City runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,824 students. McCoy Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, McCoy Elementary School shows that 86% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest consists of 12% multiracial. By comparison, Yazoo County as a whole is about 58% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 27.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, McCoy Elementary School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 44.3%; this one comes in at 27.4%, -16.9 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Yazoo County indicate median household income runs about $39,295, 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 22%. Across Yazoo County's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,040 students), McCoy Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Yazoo City High School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, McCoy Elementary School comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 41.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at McCoy Elementary School has decreased 6%, going from 895 students in 2018 to 844 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 98% to 86% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 27.4:1 in 2025.

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