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Enrollment
1,046
Elementary
DISTRICT 681 · STATE 446
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DESOTO COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 280132001336
Southaven Intermediate School
175 Rasco Road E, Southaven, MS 38671 · (662) 253-0123 · DeSoto County
GRADES 03–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,046 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 40% 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.
- CBeats 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
16.1:1
65 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.3:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
69%
718 students
DISTRICT 51% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 375 | 36% |
| Grade 4 | 336 | 32% |
| Grade 5 | 335 | 32% |
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · 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
Test scores
MAAP 2024-25 . % Proficient + AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
42.5%
MS avg 45.9% . -9.2pp since 2023
Math
47.3%
MS avg 52.8% . -7.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the MAAP, Mississippi's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 7 points.
MAAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 42.5% | 47.3% |
| 2023-24 | 51.7% | 54.5% |
% 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
56.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.9%
based on MS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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 Southaven Intermediate School
Southaven Intermediate School's state test result (56.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southaven Intermediate School this school | 1,046 | 68.6% | 56.0% |
| Bellevue Elementary Hattiesburg | 1,145 | 63.2% | 66.4% |
| Walls Elementary School Walls | 722 | 69.0% | 45.4% |
| Pearl Lower Elementary PEARL | 763 | 69.9% | 70.6% |
| Southaven Elementary School Southaven | 681 | 78.4% | 45.3% |
| Hope Sullivan Elementary School Southaven | 563 | 72.3% | 39.3% |
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 Southaven Intermediate School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Mississippi | In DeSoto County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 56.0% | #208 of 428 | #14 of 23 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.3% | #238 of 439 ▼ 37 | #17 of 23 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 42.5% | #271 of 439 ▼ 38 | #17 of 23 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,046 | #14 of 453 | #2 of 23 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.1:1 | #283 of 408 | #8 of 23 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.8% | #69 of 409 | #12 of 23 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 68.6% | #335 of 444 | #8 of 23 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.4% | #178 of 296 | #4 of 15 |
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
1,046
-9 (-1%) vs 2020
-16% since 2010-11, when it was 1,238
Student : Teacher
16.1:1
was 15.1:1
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 | 1,046 | 65 | 16.1:1 | 69% (718) |
| 2023-24 | 997 | 71.9 | 13.9:1 | 69% (683) |
| 2022-23 | 990 | 72.6 | 13.6:1 | 100% (987) |
| 2020-21 | 1,055 | 70 | 15.1:1 | 100% (1,052) |
| 2017-18 | 1,181 | 68.3 | 17.3:1 | 72% (845) |
| 2015-16 | 1,105 | 68 | 16.3:1 | 73% (809) |
| 2010-11 | 1,238 | 67 | 18.5:1 | 63% (778) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Southaven Intermediate School.
About Southaven Intermediate School
Southaven Intermediate School is a large elementary school with its address in Southaven, Mississippi. The school has 1,046 students in 2024-25 across grades 3 through 5. Elementary schools in Mississippi average about 446 students, which makes this school 135% above average.
DeSoto County School District (39 schools, 34,934 students) runs Southaven Intermediate School.
Federal enrollment data show Southaven Intermediate School is 56% Black. The remaining shares are 20% White, 15% Hispanic, and 7% multiracial. DeSoto County as a whole is about 33% Black, so the school's share is higher. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 62, compared with 70 nationally.
Its staff includes 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 16.1 students per teacher. It is about the same as the 15.9:1 average for elementary schools in Mississippi. Southaven Intermediate School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 69%. The average for public schools in DeSoto County is 49%.
On the allk12 Grade, Southaven Intermediate School lands at C+, ahead of 40% of Mississippi public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Southaven Intermediate School falls in the middle 80% of Mississippi schools: 56.0% actual against 59.9% predicted.
For the population of DeSoto County, the median household earns about $85,297 a year, about 29% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 8% of residents are in poverty. Across DeSoto County, 43 public schools serve about 34,934 students.
A public school about 0.6 miles away, Greenbrook Elementary School, is the closest to Southaven Intermediate School. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Southaven Intermediate School comes in 1st of 6 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Southaven Intermediate School is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
Enrollment was essentially flat over 4 years: 1,055 in 2020-21, 1,046 in 2024-25. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio increased from 15.1:1 to 16.1:1.
Southaven Intermediate School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
DeSoto County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
191,301
Census ACS
Median income
$85,297
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
29%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
43
34,934 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in DeSoto County School District
- DeSoto Central High SchoolHigh · 2,004 students
- Southaven High SchoolHigh · 1,876 students
- Hernando High SchoolHigh · 1,529 students
- Southaven Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,423 students
- DeSoto Central Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,388 students
- Lewisburg High SchoolHigh · 1,330 students
Other schools in Southaven
- DeSoto Central High SchoolHigh · 2,004 students
- Southaven High SchoolHigh · 1,876 students
- Southaven Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,423 students
- DeSoto Central Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,388 students
- DeSoto Central ElementaryElementary · 831 students
- DeSoto Central Primary SchoolElementary · 792 students
Nearby schools
- Greenbrook Elementary School0.6 mi · 556
- Southaven High School1.0 mi · 1,876
- Southaven Middle School1.1 mi · 1,423
- Southaven Elementary School1.4 mi · 681
- Hope Sullivan Elementary School2.1 mi · 563
- Oakshire Elementary2.3 mi · 442
Frequently asked questions
About Southaven Intermediate SchoolHow many students attend Southaven Intermediate School?
Southaven Intermediate School enrolls approximately 1,046 students in grades 03-05.
What grades does Southaven Intermediate School serve?
Southaven Intermediate School serves grades 03-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Southaven Intermediate School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Southaven Intermediate School is approximately 16.1:1 (65 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Southaven Intermediate School?
At Southaven Intermediate School, the student body is approximately 20% White, 15% Hispanic, 56% Black, 1% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is Southaven Intermediate School public or private?
Southaven Intermediate School is a public K-12 school, overseen by DeSoto County School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.