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What's the one class at NORTHWEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL every student should take?
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Enrollment
477
Elementary
DISTRICT 536 · STATE 446
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RANKIN COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 280383001077
Northwest Elementary
500 Vine Dr, Flowood, MS 39232 · (601) 992-0924 · Rankin County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL477 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 71% of Mississippi public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats 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
13.3:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
37%
177 students
DISTRICT 49% · 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 | 17 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 53 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 85 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 64 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 92 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 78 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 88 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (53) is 40% smaller than its 5th grade class (88).
Student demographics
64%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
62.5%
MS avg 45.9% . -14.3pp since 2023
Math
70.3%
MS avg 52.8% . -2.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the MAAP, Mississippi's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 70 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 14 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
MAAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 62.5% | 70.3% |
| 2023-24 | 76.8% | 73.2% |
% 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
75.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
75.8%
based on MS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 76% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 76% 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 Northwest Elementary
Northwest Elementary's state test result (75.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northwest Elementary this school | 477 | 37.1% | 75.5% |
| Highland Bluff Elementary Brandon | 491 | 40.3% | 66.7% |
| Northside Elementary School Clinton | 683 | 48.0% | 75.7% |
| Eastside Elementary School Clinton | 747 | 47.9% | 82.9% |
| Central Elementary School Oxford | 709 | 45.8% | 74.7% |
| Flowood Elementary Flowood | 458 | 50.9% | 67.0% |
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 Northwest Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Mississippi | In Rankin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 75.5% | #47 of 428 | #6 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 70.3% | #81 of 439 ▼ 21 | #8 of 19 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.5% | #96 of 439 ▼ 65 | #13 of 19 ▼ 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 477 | #162 of 453 | #15 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.3:1 | #81 of 408 | #4 of 19 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.7% | #57 of 409 | #8 of 19 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 37.1% | #428 of 444 | #17 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.9% | #111 of 296 | #6 of 16 |
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
477
-53 (-10%) vs 2020
-35% since 1990-91, when it was 732
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
was 16.1:1
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 | 477 | 36 | 13.3:1 | 37% (177) |
| 2023-24 | 495 | 38.7 | 12.8:1 | 35% (171) |
| 2022-23 | 495 | 39.2 | 12.6:1 | 99% (492) |
| 2020-21 | 530 | 33 | 16.1:1 | 99% (527) |
| 2017-18 | 588 | 35.4 | 16.6:1 | 31% (181) |
| 2015-16 | 563 | 35 | 16.1:1 | 35% (197) |
| 2010-11 | 520 | 28 | 18.6:1 | 30% (155) |
| 2000-01 | 606 | 31 | 19.6:1 | 33% (202) |
| 1990-91 | 732 | 32 | 22.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Northwest Elementary.
About Northwest Elementary
Northwest Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school in Flowood, Mississippi, under Rankin County School District. Classes run from pre-K through 5, and the school has 477 students.
Rankin County School District enrolls 18,196 students in 27 schools, including Northwest Elementary.
By race and ethnicity, the largest group at Northwest Elementary is White (49%). Smaller groups are 33% Black, 6% Asian, 6% multiracial, and 5% Hispanic. For comparison, the population of Rankin County is roughly 71% White. Northwest Elementary has a diversity index of 64%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Its 36 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 13.3:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Mississippi is 15.9:1, higher than at this school. The school's lunch program data list 37% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The rate at public schools in Rankin County averages 50%, higher than here.
The allk12 Grade for Northwest Elementary is B+. Compared with Mississippi public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 71% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Northwest Elementary, the prediction is 75.8% and the result is 75.5%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Rankin County show that median household income is about $79,357, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 34 public schools in Rankin County, with a combined enrollment of about 22,454.
Northwest Middle School is the public school closest to Northwest Elementary, about 0.2 miles away. Northwest Elementary has 6 other public schools within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Northwest Elementary at 5th of 9.
The NCES locale for Northwest Elementary is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Northwest Elementary saw enrollment fall 10% between 2020-21 and 2024-25. The ratio was 16.1:1 in 2020-21 and 13.3:1 in 2024-25.
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Rankin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
158,854
Census ACS
Median income
$79,357
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
34
22,454 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Rankin County School District
- Northwest High SchoolHigh · 1,855 students
- Brandon High SchoolHigh · 1,609 students
- Northwest Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,352 students
- Brandon Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,155 students
- Rouse ElementaryElementary · 798 students
- Brandon ElementaryElementary · 743 students
Other schools in Flowood
- Northwest High SchoolHigh · 1,855 students
- Northwest Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,352 students
- Flowood ElementaryElementary · 458 students
Other Northwest Elementary schools
28 other US public schools in 18 states are named Northwest Elementary. Northwest Elementary is the 16th largest of the 29.
- Northwest Elementary SchoolTulsa, OK · 959 students
- Northwest Elementary SchoolJACKSON, MI · 758 students
- NORTHWEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLTAMPA, FL · 658 students
- Northwest Elementary SchoolLa Salle, IL · 650 students
- Northwest ElementaryLexington, NC · 625 students
Nearby schools
- Northwest Middle School0.2 mi · 1,352
- Northwest High School0.6 mi · 1,855
- Highland Bluff Elementary1.2 mi · 491
- Oakdale Elementary2.5 mi · 566
- Northshore Elementary3.2 mi · 539
- Flowood Elementary3.5 mi · 458
Frequently asked questions
About Northwest ElementaryHow large is Northwest Elementary?
Northwest Elementary enrolls approximately 477 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Northwest Elementary serve?
Northwest Elementary serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Northwest Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Northwest Elementary is approximately 13.3:1 (36 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Northwest Elementary?
Northwest Elementary reports a student body of 49% White, 5% Hispanic, 33% Black, 6% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Northwest Elementary?
Northwest Elementary is overseen by Rankin County School District in Rankin County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.