Quitman County Elementary

Quitman County Elementary is one of the close-knit primary schools in LAMBERT, Mississippi, run under Quitman County School District, with 331 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4. That puts it 26% below the typical public school in Mississippi, which averages around 446 students.

Across the 3 schools in Quitman County School District (835 students total), Quitman County Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Quitman County Elementary records that 93% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest comes out to 3% White. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

On the income-and-resources front, Roughly 100% of students at Quitman County Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Quitman County put the typical household earns roughly $32,412 per year, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 25%. Quitman County Elementary is one of 4 public schools in Quitman County (combined enrollment of about 835 students).

Madison Palmer High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Quitman County Elementary.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. Quitman County Elementary's enrollment has edged down 22% since 2018, when it stood at 426 (now 331).

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