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Enrollment
1,191
Elementary
DISTRICT 846 · STATE 446
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LOWNDES COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 280273000532
New Hope Elementary
199 ENLOW ROAD, COLUMBUS, MS 39702 · (662) 244-4760 · Lowndes County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,191 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 37% of Mississippi public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Mississippi public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
85 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
67%
795 students
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 80%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 80 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 194 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 193 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 187 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 190 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 170 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 177 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (194) is 10% larger than its 5th grade class (177).
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MAAP 2024-25 . % Proficient + AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
54.1%
MS avg 45.9% . -3.2pp since 2023
Math
51.4%
MS avg 52.8% . +2.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the MAAP, Mississippi's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Mississippi schools, those numbers are about 46 and 53. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
MAAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 54.1% | 51.4% |
| 2023-24 | 57.3% | 48.9% |
% Proficient + Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: MAAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
55.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.8%
based on MS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% typical for Mississippi schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Mississippi's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like New Hope Elementary
New Hope Elementary's state test result (55.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Hope Elementary this school | 1,191 | 66.8% | 55.0% |
| North Pike Elementary School Summit | 781 | 70.9% | 54.5% |
| Neshoba Central Elementary School PHILADELPHIA | 1,419 | 67.5% | 71.7% |
| Stone Elementary School Wiggins | 714 | 68.3% | 75.2% |
| Senatobia Elementary School Senatobia | 879 | 66.3% | 62.6% |
| Grenada Elementary School GRENADA | 2,044 | 75.0% | 76.9% |
Matched among Mississippi elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where New Hope Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Mississippi | In Lowndes County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 55.0% | #220 of 428 | #2 of 8 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.4% | #209 of 439 ▲ 35 | #2 of 8 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.1% | #169 of 439 ▲ 9 | #2 of 8 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,191 | #4 of 453 | #1 of 8 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.0:1 | #127 of 408 | #3 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.6% | #129 of 409 | #1 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.8% | #348 of 444 | #7 of 8 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +5.6% | #55 of 90 | N/A |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,191
+120 (+11%) vs 2020
-17% since 1990-91, when it was 1,427
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
was 14.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,191 | 85 | 14.0:1 | 67% (795) |
| 2023-24 | 1,199 | 92.1 | 13.0:1 | 73% (872) |
| 2022-23 | 1,151 | 93.5 | 12.3:1 | 100% (1,148) |
| 2020-21 | 1,071 | 74 | 14.5:1 | 100% (1,068) |
| 2017-18 | 1,128 | 75.1 | 15.0:1 | 60% (673) |
| 2015-16 | 1,139 | 74 | 15.4:1 | 64% (727) |
| 2010-11 | 1,121 | 78 | 14.4:1 | 54% (609) |
| 2000-01 | 1,392 | 83 | 16.8:1 | 50% (702) |
| 1990-91 | 1,427 | 64 | 22.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for New Hope Elementary.
About New Hope Elementary
New Hope Elementary is a high-enrollment elementary school with its address in COLUMBUS, Mississippi. Students in pre-K through 5 attend the school, which enrolls 1,191 students. The average among elementary schools in Mississippi is roughly 446 students; this school is 167% larger than that.
Lowndes County School District (8 schools, 5,261 students) runs New Hope Elementary.
A majority of students at New Hope Elementary, 51%, are White. The rest of enrollment is 44% Black and 4% multiracial. That is close to the 49% White share among all Lowndes County residents. The chance that two students picked at random at New Hope Elementary belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 55%.
The school's student-to-teacher ratio is about 14.0:1, with 85 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average ratio among elementary schools in Mississippi is 15.9:1, higher than at this school. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 67% of enrollment. Public schools in Lowndes County average 75%.
Measured against Mississippi public elementary schools, New Hope Elementary receives a C+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, New Hope Elementary falls in the middle 80% of Mississippi schools: 55.0% actual against 60.8% predicted.
Census Bureau estimates for Lowndes County show that median household income is about $53,812, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 28% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 15%. New Hope Elementary is one of 20 public schools in Lowndes County, which together enroll about 8,512 students.
New Hope Middle School is located about 0.2 miles from New Hope Elementary. Within five miles are 3 other public schools. Among its closest neighbors with test data, New Hope Elementary is 2nd of 8 on proficiency.
Locale data from NCES put New Hope Elementary in rural territory some distance from an urban area (Rural: Distant).
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count climbed from 1,071 to 1,191.
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Lowndes County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
57,838
Census ACS
Median income
$53,812
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
20
8,512 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lowndes County School District
- Caledonia ElementaryElementary · 1,070 students
- New Hope High SchoolHigh · 787 students
- Caledonia High SchoolHigh · 640 students
- New Hope Middle SchoolMiddle · 604 students
- Caledonia Middle SchoolMiddle · 487 students
- West Lowndes ElementaryElementary · 276 students
Other schools in COLUMBUS
- Columbus High SchoolHigh · 865 students
- New Hope High SchoolHigh · 787 students
- New Hope Middle SchoolMiddle · 604 students
- Columbus Middle SchoolMiddle · 597 students
- Cook Elementary SchoolElementary · 415 students
- Stokes Beard Elementary SchoolElementary · 369 students
Other New Hope Elementary schools
10 other US public schools in 6 states are named New Hope Elementary. New Hope Elementary is the largest of the 11.
- New Hope Elementary SchoolComming, GA · 1,175 students
- New Hope ElementaryLocust Grove, GA · 621 students
- New Hope ElementaryGastonia, NC · 571 students
- New Hope Elementary SchoolNew Hope, AL · 534 students
- New Hope ElementaryChapel Hill, NC · 528 students
Nearby schools
- New Hope Middle School0.2 mi · 604
- New Hope High School0.2 mi · 787
- Fairview Elementary School4.9 mi · 244
- Sale Elementary School5.2 mi · 290
- Columbus High School5.5 mi · 865
- Stokes Beard Elementary School6.1 mi · 369
Frequently asked questions
About New Hope ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at New Hope Elementary?
New Hope Elementary enrolls approximately 1,191 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does New Hope Elementary serve?
New Hope Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does New Hope Elementary have?
New Hope Elementary employs 85 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.0:1.
What is the student diversity at New Hope Elementary?
Student demographics at New Hope Elementary are roughly 51% White, 1% Hispanic, 44% Black, 0% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is New Hope Elementary public or private?
New Hope Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Lowndes County School District.
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