Oak Park Elementary

Oak Park Elementary, a reasonably sized K-5 school in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, one of the schools within Ocean Springs School District, serves 467 students, covering grades pre-K through 3.

Oak Park Elementary is one of 6 schools operated by Ocean Springs School District, a district that educates 5,677 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Oak Park Elementary shows that 75% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school records 9% Black, 7% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 2% Asian.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. An estimated 26% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Jackson County (around 59%), the school's rate is south of typical.

In the broader community, Jackson County reports that the typical household earns roughly $66,201 per year, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Oak Park Elementary is one of 46 public schools in Jackson County (combined enrollment of about 22,712 students).

Ocean Springs Upper Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Oak Park Elementary has contracted 14%, going from 542 students in 2018 to 467 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 in 2025.

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