Okolona Elementary School

Okolona Elementary School is an elementary school of close-knit scale in OKOLONA, Mississippi, operated by Okolona School District, teacheing 238 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 47% below the typical public school in Mississippi, which averages around 446 students.

Okolona School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 512 students; Okolona Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Okolona Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (84%). The remainder looks like 10% multiracial, 5% White. By comparison, Chickasaw County as a whole is about 48% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Okolona Elementary School has 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.9:1. The state averages about 15.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Chickasaw County runs at roughly 79%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Chickasaw County indicate median household income runs about $43,586, 12% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 19%. Across Chickasaw County's 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,709 students), Okolona Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Okolona Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Okolona Elementary School has decreased 15%, going from 279 students in 2018 to 238 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share fell from 92% to 84%.

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