Escatawpa Upper Elementary

Located at 4208 Jamestown Road, in Moss Point, Mississippi, Escatawpa Upper Elementary is a small elementary campus that teaches 342 students (grades 3 through 5), overseen by Moss Point School District. By comparison, Mississippi's public schools average about 446 students each, so Escatawpa Upper Elementary sits 23% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 4 schools in Moss Point School District (1,611 students total), Escatawpa Upper Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Escatawpa Upper Elementary shows that 64% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder breaks down as 18% White, 12% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 19% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Escatawpa Upper Elementary lists 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.9:1, putting Escatawpa Upper Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Jackson County runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, Jackson County reports 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 Escatawpa Upper Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Moss Point High School, roughly 1.7 miles away. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Escatawpa Upper Elementary operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 23%: 445 students in 2018 compared to 342 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share declined from 76% to 64%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 today.

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