St. Martin Upper Elementary

St. Martin Upper Elementary operates as a mid-tier K-5 school in St. Martin, Mississippi, operated by Jackson County School District. Current enrollment sits at 600 students spanning grades 4 through 5. Compared to the state average of about 446 students per school, that is 35% larger than typical.

Jackson County School District runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 8,845 students. St. Martin Upper Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, St. Martin Upper Elementary logs that the largest single group is White, at 59% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 15% Black, 11% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 6% Asian.

On the income-and-resources front, St. Martin Upper Elementary lists 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 66% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Around the school, census data for Jackson County shows the typical household earns roughly $66,201 per year, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Jackson County runs 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,712 students), of which St. Martin Upper Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is St. Martin Middle School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

St. Martin Upper Elementary operates from an outlying location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 18%: 733 students in 2018 compared to 600 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 67% to 59%. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 in 2025.

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