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What's something PARKVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
364
Elementary
DISTRICT 368 · STATE 446
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MERIDIAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 280291000571
Parkview Elementary
1225 26th St, Meridian, MS 39305 · (601) 484-4990 · Lauderdale County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY33-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL364 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 27% of Mississippi public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Mississippi public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.7:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.8:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
364 students
DISTRICT 100% · STATE 80%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 50 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 50 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 73 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 72 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 60 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 59 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (50) is 15% smaller than its 5th grade class (59).
Student demographics
9%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 17% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MAAP 2024-25 . % Proficient + AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
36.9%
MS avg 45.9% . +2.0pp since 2023
Math
30.2%
MS avg 52.8% . -2.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the MAAP, Mississippi's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 30 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Mississippi schools, those numbers are about 46 and 53. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
MAAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 36.9% | 30.2% |
| 2023-24 | 34.9% | 33.1% |
% Proficient + Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: MAAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
42.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.1%
based on MS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% typical for Mississippi schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Mississippi's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Parkview Elementary
Parkview Elementary's state test result (42.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parkview Elementary this school | 364 | 100.0% | 42.9% |
| Grace Christian Elementary HATTIESBURG | 367 | 100.0% | 66.9% |
| Aberdeen Elementary Aberdeen | 346 | 99.1% | 36.5% |
| Bay Springs Elementary School BAY SPRINGS | 370 | 96.8% | 56.7% |
| Sherman Avenue Elementary Vicksburg | 360 | 100.0% | 30.4% |
| Stokes Beard Elementary School Columbus | 369 | 100.0% | 38.4% |
Matched among Mississippi elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Parkview Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Mississippi | In Lauderdale County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 42.9% | #325 of 428 | #7 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 30.2% | #367 of 439 ▼ 19 | #6 of 10 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 36.9% | #320 of 439 ▲ 43 | #7 of 10 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 364 | #270 of 453 | #9 of 10 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.7:1 | #48 of 408 | #1 of 9 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 9.0% | #376 of 409 | #9 of 9 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #85 of 444 | #1 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -25.1% | #71 of 296 | N/A |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
364
-5 (-1%) vs 2020
-18% since 1990-91, when it was 444
Student : Teacher
12.7:1
was 12.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 364 | 28.8 | 12.7:1 | 100% (364) |
| 2023-24 | 379 | 28.9 | 13.1:1 | 100% (379) |
| 2022-23 | 408 | 32.2 | 12.7:1 | 100% (408) |
| 2020-21 | 369 | 29 | 12.7:1 | 100% (369) |
| 2017-18 | 486 | 29.6 | 16.4:1 | 100% (486) |
| 2015-16 | 514 | 28 | 18.4:1 | 100% (514) |
| 2010-11 | 626 | 38 | 16.5:1 | 94% (590) |
| 2000-01 | 384 | 26 | 14.8:1 | 75% (288) |
| 1990-91 | 444 | 23 | 19.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Parkview Elementary.
About Parkview Elementary
Parkview Elementary operates as a small elementary school in Meridian, Mississippi. It teaches 364 students in kindergarten through 5.
Meridian Public Schools enrolls 4,385 students, and its 9 schools include Parkview Elementary.
Parkview Elementary is 95% Black by enrollment. Next come 2% multiracial. That compares with about 41% Black among all Lauderdale County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 9%.
The school has 28.8 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 12.7 students per teacher. Statewide, elementary schools in Mississippi average 15.9:1. Of all students at Parkview Elementary, 100% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Lauderdale County is 75%.
Parkview Elementary earns a C on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 27% of Mississippi public elementary schools.
Parkview Elementary sits between the top and bottom 10% of Mississippi schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 42.9% and a predicted 44.1%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Lauderdale County show that median household income comes to about $50,817, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 24% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 19%. Lauderdale County counts 24 public schools with about 10,325 students.
Of the public schools around it, Parkview Elementary is closest to Magnolia Middle School, less than a tenth of a mile away. Parkview Elementary has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools average 35.3% on proficiency, and Parkview Elementary is above that at 42.9%.
Locale: Town: Remote. In NCES terms, the school is in a town far from an urbanized area.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, enrollment moved from 369 to 364, a small change.
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Lauderdale County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
71,504
Census ACS
Median income
$50,817
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
19%
Below federal line
Schools in county
24
10,325 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Meridian Public Schools
- Meridian High SchoolHigh · 1,253 students
- Carver Elementary SchoolElementary · 506 students
- Northwest Middle SchoolMiddle · 484 students
- Magnolia Middle SchoolMiddle · 440 students
- West Hills ElementaryElementary · 423 students
- Poplar Springs ElementaryElementary · 405 students
Other schools in Meridian
- Meridian High SchoolHigh · 1,253 students
- West Lauderdale Elementary SchoolElementary · 761 students
- Northeast Elementary SchoolElementary · 730 students
- Northeast High SchoolHigh · 608 students
- Southeast Elementary SchoolElementary · 562 students
- Clarkdale Elementary SchoolElementary · 527 students
Other Parkview Elementary schools
40 other US public schools in 19 states are named Parkview Elementary. Parkview Elementary is the 27th largest of the 41.
- Parkview ElementaryEl Monte, CA · 920 students
- PARKVIEW ELEMENTARYROSEMOUNT, MN · 674 students
- Parkview Elementary SchoolFORT WORTH, TX · 618 students
- Parkview Elementary SchoolOklahoma City, OK · 609 students
- Parkview Elementary SchoolFORT WORTH, TX · 588 students
Nearby schools
- Magnolia Middle School0.1 mi · 440
- Meridian High School0.7 mi · 1,253
- Poplar Springs Elementary1.4 mi · 405
- West Hills Elementary1.7 mi · 423
- Meridian PreK Academy1.8 mi · 142
- Northwest Middle School1.8 mi · 484
Frequently asked questions
About Parkview ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Parkview Elementary?
Parkview Elementary enrolls approximately 364 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Parkview Elementary serve?
Parkview Elementary serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Parkview Elementary have?
Parkview Elementary employs 29 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.7:1.
What is the student diversity at Parkview Elementary?
Student demographics at Parkview Elementary are roughly 1% White, 1% Hispanic, 95% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Parkview Elementary in?
Parkview Elementary is part of Meridian Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.