Pass Road Elementary

Pass Road Elementary, a cozy elementary school in Gulfport, Mississippi, run under Gulfport School District, caters to 377 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Gulfport School District comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 5,927 students; Pass Road Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Pass Road Elementary logs that the largest single group is Black, at 59% of enrollment; the rest looks like 21% White, 15% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 24% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Pass Road Elementary has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.9:1, putting Pass Road Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Harrison County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Pass Road Elementary sits in the top 10% of Mississippi schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 44.3%; actual is 63.2%, +18.9 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Harrison County indicate the typical household earns roughly $59,479 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Harrison County's 55 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,521 students), Pass Road Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Harrison County Child Development Center, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 8%: 411 students in 2018 compared to 377 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

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