Oak Forest Elementary School

Oak Forest Elementary School operates as a medium-sized K-5 school in Jackson, Mississippi, one of the schools within Jackson Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 436 students spanning grades K through 5.

Jackson Public Schools runs 35 schools in total, collectively educating 16,870 students. Oak Forest Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Oak Forest Elementary School reports that nearly all students (97%) are Black. By comparison, Hinds County as a whole is about 72% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Oak Forest Elementary School logs 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.9:1, putting Oak Forest Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Hinds County's rate of about 88%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Oak Forest Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.1%, the actual is 35.4%, a residual of -8.7 points.

In the area at large, census data for Hinds County shows median household income runs about $49,402, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. In all, Hinds County runs 84 public schools (combined enrollment of about 32,870 students), of which Oak Forest Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: MARSHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Oak Forest Elementary School operates from an inner-city location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 16%: 377 students in 2018 compared to 436 in 2025.

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