Puckett Elementary

Puckett Elementary is one of the tight-knit primary schools in Puckett, Mississippi, part of Rankin County School District, with 351 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 21% below the state mean of about 446.

Rankin County School District comprises 27 schools with combined enrollment of 18,196 students; Puckett Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Puckett Elementary logs that 80% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 15% Black, 4% multiracial. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 71%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Puckett Elementary records 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.8:1. The state averages around 15.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 44% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Puckett Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 72.5%; this one delivers 75.0%.

Across the wider county, census data for Rankin County shows median household earnings sit near $79,357, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Puckett Elementary is one of 34 public schools in Rankin County (combined enrollment of about 22,454 students).

The closest other public school is Puckett High School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Puckett Elementary comes 1st of 4 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 55.0%.

Puckett Elementary operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Puckett Elementary's enrollment has edged down 3% since 2018, when it stood at 363 (now 351). Over the same period, the Black share decreased from 27% to 15%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 in 2025.

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