Pecan Park Elementary School

Pecan Park Elementary School operates as a medium-sized K-5 school in Jackson, Mississippi, part of Jackson Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 510 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Jackson Public Schools runs 35 schools in total, collectively educating 16,870 students. Pecan Park Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Pecan Park Elementary School shows that 83% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder reads as 13% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Hinds County as a whole is about 72% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Hinds County's rate of about 88%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Pecan Park Elementary School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 44.1%; this one comes in at 28.0%, -16.1 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Hinds County indicate median household earnings sit near $49,402, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. In all, Hinds County runs 84 public schools (combined enrollment of about 32,870 students), of which Pecan Park Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Provine High School, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pecan Park Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Pecan Park Elementary School comes 3rd of 4 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 33.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Over the past 7-year window. Pecan Park Elementary School's enrollment has increased 10% since 2018, when it stood at 465 (now 510). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.9:1 in 2018 to 16.5:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.