Standing Pine Elementary School

Standing Pine Elementary School is an elementary campus of micro-enrollment scale in CARTHAGE, Mississippi, run under Standing Pine Elementary School, hosting 119 students in grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 73% smaller than the state mean of about 446.

Operationally, Standing Pine Elementary School answers to Standing Pine Elementary School, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

In terms of who attends, Standing Pine Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Native American (100%).

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. About 97% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

In the surrounding community, census data for Leake County shows the typical household earns roughly $50,728 per year, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Leake County runs 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,644 students), of which Standing Pine Elementary School is one.

Leake County Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.2 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Standing Pine Elementary School has ticked down 8%, going from 130 students in 2018 to 119 in 2025.

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