McEvans Elementary School

McEvans Elementary School is one of the small elementary schools in SHAW, Mississippi, part of West Bolivar Consolidated School District, with 204 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. By comparison, Mississippi's public schools average about 446 students each, so McEvans Elementary School sits 54% leaner than that benchmark.

Within West Bolivar Consolidated School District, which oversees 4 schools and 873 students, McEvans Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, McEvans Elementary School lists that 74% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 23% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), McEvans Elementary School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 44.1%; this one comes in at 28.9%, -15.2 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Bolivar County put the typical household earns roughly $39,585 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 27%. In all, Bolivar County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,415 students), of which McEvans Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Shaw High School, around 0.0 miles off. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

McEvans Elementary School operates from a low-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at McEvans Elementary School has declined 32%, going from 302 students in 2018 to 204 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 94% to 74% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 in 2025.

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