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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the PURVIS LOWER ELEMENTARY administration to hear?
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Enrollment
448
Elementary
DISTRICT 622 · STATE 446
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAMAR COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 280240000968
Purvis Lower Elementary
5976 U.S. Hwy. 11, Purvis, MS 39475 · (601) 794-3302 · Lamar County
GRADES PK–02ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL448 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 36% of Mississippi public elementary schools
- B-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
15.0:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
54%
243 students
DISTRICT 58% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 65 | 15% |
| Kindergarten | 119 | 27% |
| Grade 1 | 121 | 27% |
| Grade 2 | 143 | 32% |
Student demographics
34%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Purvis Lower Elementary→Purvis Upper Elementary
Based on grade levels within Lamar County School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
MAAP 2024-25 . % Proficient + AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
47.3%
MS avg 45.9% . -18.0pp since 2023
Math
55.4%
MS avg 52.8% . -5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the MAAP, Mississippi's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 55 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Mississippi schools, those numbers are about 46 and 53. Reading and writing scores are down about 18 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
MAAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 47.3% | 55.4% |
| 2023-24 | 65.3% | 60.4% |
% 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
57.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.1%
based on MS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% 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 Purvis Lower Elementary
Purvis Lower Elementary's state test result (57.1% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Purvis Lower Elementary this school | 448 | 54.2% | 57.1% |
| Purvis Upper Elementary Purvis | 377 | 54.6% | 56.4% |
| East Webster Elementary School Mathiston | 434 | 50.2% | 73.5% |
| DeLisle Elementary School PASS CHRISTIAN | 400 | 58.0% | 70.1% |
| Poplarville Lower Elementary POPLARVILLE | 521 | 58.7% | 65.8% |
| Agricola Elementary School LUCEDALE | 543 | 56.5% | 62.8% |
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 Purvis Lower Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Mississippi | In Lamar County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.1% | #194 of 428 | #6 of 8 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 55.4% | #181 of 439 ▼ 28 | #6 of 8 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.3% | #237 of 439 ▼ 132 | #7 of 8 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 448 | #181 of 453 | #5 of 8 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.0:1 | #206 of 408 | #8 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 34.4% | #260 of 409 | #5 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 54.2% | #393 of 444 | #7 of 8 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +14.9% | #21 of 90 | 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
448
+32 (+8%) vs 2020
-18% since 2000-01, when it was 544
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
was 13.9:1
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 | 448 | 29.8 | 15.0:1 | 54% (243) |
| 2023-24 | 481 | 39.9 | 12.0:1 | 54% (261) |
| 2022-23 | 454 | 37.2 | 12.2:1 | 99% (451) |
| 2020-21 | 416 | 30 | 13.9:1 | 99% (413) |
| 2017-18 | 390 | 27.8 | 14.1:1 | 57% (223) |
| 2015-16 | 402 | 27 | 14.9:1 | 61% (244) |
| 2010-11 | 343 | 22 | 15.6:1 | 63% (215) |
| 2000-01 | 544 | 39 | 13.9:1 | 33% (182) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Purvis Lower Elementary.
About Purvis Lower Elementary
Students in Purvis, Mississippi, attend Purvis Lower Elementary, a medium-sized elementary school. The grade span is pre-K through 2, and enrollment is 448 students.
Purvis Lower Elementary falls under Lamar County School District, which has 15 schools enrolling 10,318 students.
By race and ethnicity, Purvis Lower Elementary is 80% White. Other reported shares: 11% Black, 6% multiracial, and 2% Hispanic. That compares with about 71% White among all Lamar County residents. By the diversity index, Purvis Lower Elementary comes in at 34%.
The school reports 29.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 15.0 students per teacher. For comparison, elementary schools in Mississippi average 15.9:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 54% of students. That is close to the 55% average for public schools in Lamar County.
The allk12 Grade for Purvis Lower Elementary is C+. Compared with Mississippi public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 36% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
In Mississippi, Purvis Lower Elementary is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 57.1% actual against a predicted 67.1%.
Across Lamar County, median household income is about $70,909, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 35% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. The public schools of Lamar County number 17 and enroll about 10,318.
The nearest public school is Purvis High School, at about 0.5 miles. There are 3 other public schools within five miles. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Purvis Lower Elementary is 6th on average proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Rural: Distant: in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
Federal counts put enrollment at 416 in 2020-21 and 448 in 2024-25, an 8% rise. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 13.9:1; by 2024-25 it was 15.0:1.
Community posts for Purvis Lower Elementary can cover sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Lamar County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
65,713
Census ACS
Median income
$70,909
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
17
10,318 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lamar County School District
- Oak Grove High SchoolHigh · 1,750 students
- Oak Grove Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,160 students
- Bellevue ElementaryElementary · 1,145 students
- Sumrall Elementary SchoolElementary · 960 students
- Longleaf ElementaryElementary · 787 students
- Oak Grove ElementaryElementary · 758 students
Other schools in Purvis
- Purvis High SchoolHigh · 614 students
- Purvis Middle SchoolMiddle · 447 students
- Purvis Upper ElementaryElementary · 377 students
- JEFFERSON/TODD ALTERNATIVE PROGRAMCombined
- LAMAR CO VOC TECH CENTERHigh
Nearby schools
- Purvis High School0.5 mi · 614
- Purvis Middle School0.6 mi · 447
- Purvis Upper Elementary0.7 mi · 377
- Dixie Attendance Center8.5 mi · 487
- Lumberton Elementary School9.6 mi · 287
- Lumberton High School9.7 mi · 268
Frequently asked questions
About Purvis Lower ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Purvis Lower Elementary?
Purvis Lower Elementary enrolls approximately 448 students in grades PK-02.
What age range does Purvis Lower Elementary serve?
Purvis Lower Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 02.
How many students per teacher at Purvis Lower Elementary?
Approximately 15.0:1 students per teacher at Purvis Lower Elementary.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Purvis Lower Elementary?
At Purvis Lower Elementary, the student body is approximately 80% White, 2% Hispanic, 11% Black, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Purvis Lower Elementary?
Purvis Lower Elementary is overseen by Lamar County School District in Lamar County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.