Nora Davis Elementary

Set in Laurel, Mississippi, Nora Davis Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus, overseen by Laurel School District. It hosts 519 students across grades 2 through 4.

Laurel School District runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 2,620 students. Nora Davis Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Nora Davis Elementary logs that 82% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder looks like 15% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 29% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Nora Davis Elementary has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Jones County's rate of about 76%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Jones County indicate the typical household earns roughly $52,216 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Jones County's 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,313 students), Nora Davis Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Laurel Magnet School Of The Arts is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

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