Morgantown Elementary

Morgantown Elementary is a small intermediate school in Natchez, Mississippi, overseen by Natchez-Adams School District. The school educates 359 students in grades 5 through 6. By comparison, Mississippi's public schools average about 452 students each, so Morgantown Elementary sits 21% smaller than that benchmark.

Natchez-Adams School District runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 2,554 students. Morgantown Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Morgantown Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (92%). Other groups include 4% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Adams County as a whole is about 56% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Adams County) records that median household earnings sit near $43,644, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 20%. Across Adams County's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,714 students), Morgantown Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Natchez High School, roughly 1.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.