Otken Elementary School

As a moderately sized elementary school in MCCOMB, Mississippi, Otken Elementary School caters to 458 students from grades 1 through 4, run under McComb School District.

McComb School District comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,121 students; Otken Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Otken Elementary School logs that 90% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest consists of 5% White, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 54%.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 100% of students at Otken Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Pike County (around 91%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Across the wider county, Pike County reports that the typical household earns roughly $43,814 per year, roughly 15% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 23% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Pike County runs 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,717 students), of which Otken Elementary School is one.

Denman Junior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Otken Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 13%: 529 students in 2018 compared to 458 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.4:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.

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