Overstreet Elementary School

Overstreet Elementary School is an intermediate school of close-knit scale in Starkville, Mississippi, run under Starkville Oktibbeha Consolidated School District, hosting 324 students in grade 5. Enrollment runs roughly 28% below the state mean of about 452.

Overstreet Elementary School is one of 7 schools operated by Starkville Oktibbeha Consolidated School District, a district that educates 4,880 students overall.

On demographics, Overstreet Elementary School records that 59% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder reads as 32% White, 6% Asian. By comparison, Oktibbeha County as a whole is about 36% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Overstreet Elementary School lists 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Roughly 66% of students at Overstreet Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Oktibbeha County indicate median household earnings sit near $46,695, roughly 47% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Oktibbeha County's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,880 students), Overstreet Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Armstrong Junior High School, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Overstreet Elementary School.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 10%: 360 students in 2018 compared to 324 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment shrank from 70% to 59% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.

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