Rawls Springs Attendance Center

Rawls Springs Attendance Center, a low-enrollment elementary campus in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, run under Forrest County School District, hosts 214 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 446 students per school, that is 52% smaller than typical.

Forrest County School District runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 2,124 students. Rawls Springs Attendance Center is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Rawls Springs Attendance Center logs that 58% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 22% White, 9% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 36% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.9:1, putting Rawls Springs Attendance Center tighter than the state norm the norm. About 86% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Rawls Springs Attendance Center sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.2%; this one delivers 58.3%.

In the broader community, census data for Forrest County shows the typical household earns roughly $53,640 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. Rawls Springs Attendance Center is one of 21 public schools in Forrest County (combined enrollment of about 10,857 students).

Longleaf Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.0 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Rawls Springs Attendance Center ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 63.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Rawls Springs Attendance Center has shrank 3%, going from 221 students in 2018 to 214 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 68% to 58% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 in 2025.

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