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What's the biggest difference between SOUTHEAST LAUDERDALE ELEMENTARY and what you expected?
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Enrollment
562
Elementary
DISTRICT 645 · STATE 446
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAUDERDALE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 280243001573
Southeast Elementary School
2362 A Long Creek Road, Meridian, MS 39301 · (601) 486-2500 · Lauderdale County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL562 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 26% of Mississippi public elementary schools
- C+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
16.7:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.4:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
69%
390 students
DISTRICT 57% · 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 | 44 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 83 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 115 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 103 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 113 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 104 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (83) is 20% smaller than its 4th grade class (104).
Student demographics
49%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · 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
47.4%
MS avg 45.9% . -10.4pp since 2023
Math
44.5%
MS avg 52.8% . -7.3pp 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 45 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 7 points.
MAAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 47.4% | 44.5% |
| 2023-24 | 57.8% | 51.8% |
% 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
50.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.5%
based on MS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 50% 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 Southeast Elementary School
Southeast Elementary School's state test result (50.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southeast Elementary School this school | 562 | 69.4% | 50.4% |
| Anderson Elementary School Booneville | 551 | 71.9% | 69.5% |
| Raleigh Elementary School RALEIGH | 649 | 69.0% | 60.1% |
| Stone Elementary School Wiggins | 714 | 68.3% | 75.2% |
| Columbia Primary School Columbia | 448 | 70.1% | 70.2% |
| Waveland Elementary School WAVELAND | 460 | 69.8% | 67.9% |
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 Southeast Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Mississippi | In Lauderdale County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.4% | #259 of 428 | #3 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 44.5% | #261 of 439 ▼ 40 | #3 of 10 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.4% | #235 of 439 ▼ 62 | #3 of 10 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 562 | #113 of 453 | #3 of 10 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.7:1 | #331 of 408 | #8 of 9 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.4% | #179 of 409 | #2 of 9 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 69.4% | #328 of 444 | #8 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +10.6% | #31 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
562
+107 (+24%) vs 2020
0% since 2010-11, when it was 563
Student : Teacher
16.7:1
was 14.2:1
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 | 562 | 33.6 | 16.7:1 | 69% (390) |
| 2023-24 | 564 | 37.2 | 15.2:1 | 67% (377) |
| 2022-23 | 503 | 36.6 | 13.7:1 | 99% (500) |
| 2020-21 | 455 | 32 | 14.2:1 | 99% (452) |
| 2017-18 | 508 | 37.5 | 13.6:1 | 70% (354) |
| 2015-16 | 553 | 38 | 14.6:1 | 75% (415) |
| 2010-11 | 563 | 36 | 15.6:1 | 72% (407) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Southeast Elementary School.
About Southeast Elementary School
Southeast Elementary School is one of the public schools in Meridian, Mississippi. It is a mid-sized elementary school. The school runs pre-K through 4 and enrolls 562 students. Elementary schools in Mississippi have about 446 students on average; enrollment here is 26% higher.
Lauderdale County School District (11 schools, 5,940 students) runs Southeast Elementary School.
The share of White students at Southeast Elementary School is 65%, a majority. After that, the student body is 30% Black, 3% multiracial, and 2% Hispanic. Census figures show Lauderdale County is about 51% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 49, compared with 70 nationally.
Teacher count: 33.6 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 16.7:1. Across elementary schools in Mississippi, the average ratio is 15.9:1. Roughly 69% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Southeast Elementary School holds a C allk12 Grade, placing it above 26% of Mississippi public elementary schools.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for Southeast Elementary School is 59.5%, and its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 50.4%.
Lauderdale County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $50,817 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 24% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 19%. Public schools in Lauderdale County number 24, with about 10,325 students.
Southeast Elementary School's nearest public school is Southeast Lauderdale High School (less than a tenth of a mile). Inside a five-mile radius, there are 2 other public schools. On average proficiency, Southeast Elementary School is 3rd of 9 nearby schools with test data.
Federal records code the school's setting as Rural: Distant.
In 2020-21, Southeast Elementary School enrolled 455 students. By 2024-25, that number had grown to 562. The student-to-teacher ratio increased from 14.2:1 in 2020-21 to 16.7:1 in 2024-25.
This page is set up for the Southeast Elementary School community to discuss special education services, counseling, and support programs. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Lauderdale County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
71,504
Census ACS
Median income
$50,817
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
19%
Below federal line
Schools in county
24
10,325 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lauderdale County School District
- West Lauderdale Elementary SchoolElementary · 761 students
- Northeast Elementary SchoolElementary · 730 students
- Northeast High SchoolHigh · 608 students
- West Lauderdale Middle SchoolMiddle · 537 students
- West Lauderdale High SchoolHigh · 535 students
- Clarkdale Elementary SchoolElementary · 527 students
Other schools in Meridian
- Meridian High SchoolHigh · 1,253 students
- West Lauderdale Elementary SchoolElementary · 761 students
- Northeast Elementary SchoolElementary · 730 students
- Northeast High SchoolHigh · 608 students
- Clarkdale Elementary SchoolElementary · 527 students
- Northeast Middle SchoolMiddle · 520 students
Other Southeast Elementary schools
16 other US public schools in 13 states are named Southeast Elementary. Southeast Elementary School is the 4th largest of the 17.
- Southeast Elementary SchoolTulsa, OK · 817 students
- Southeast Elementary SchoolHOUSTON, TX · 816 students
- Southeast Elementary SchoolAnkeny, IA · 585 students
- SOUTHEAST ELEM.KANSAS CITY, MO · 548 students
- SOUTHEAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBRENTWOOD, NY · 533 students
Nearby schools
- Southeast Lauderdale High School0.0 mi · 367
- Southeast Middle School0.5 mi · 371
- Crestwood Elementary7.0 mi · 368
- Magnolia Middle School8.1 mi · 440
- Parkview Elementary8.2 mi · 364
- Meridian High School8.8 mi · 1,253
Frequently asked questions
About Southeast Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Southeast Elementary School?
Southeast Elementary School enrolls approximately 562 students in grades PK-04.
What grades does Southeast Elementary School serve?
Southeast Elementary School serves grades PK-04.
How many students per teacher at Southeast Elementary School?
Approximately 16.7:1 students per teacher at Southeast Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Southeast Elementary School?
At Southeast Elementary School, the student body is approximately 65% White, 2% Hispanic, 30% Black, 3% Two or more.
What district is Southeast Elementary School in?
Southeast Elementary School is part of Lauderdale County School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.