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How has STONE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
714
Elementary
DISTRICT 609 · STATE 446
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·STONE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 280417000789
Stone Elementary School
1652 East Central Ave, Wiggins, MS 39577 · (601) 928-5473 · Stone County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL714 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 93% of Mississippi public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
18.8:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.3:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
68%
488 students
DISTRICT 62% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 123 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 111 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 115 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 134 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 120 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 111 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (123) is 11% larger than its 5th grade class (111).
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 43% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Stone Elementary School→Stone Middle School
Based on grade levels within Stone County School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
MAAP 2024-25 . % Proficient + AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
65.7%
MS avg 45.9% . -9.4pp since 2023
Math
71.1%
MS avg 52.8% . -8.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the MAAP, Mississippi's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 71 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 9 points.
MAAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 65.7% | 71.1% |
| 2023-24 | 75.1% | 79.9% |
% Proficient + Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: MAAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of MS schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
75.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.0%
based on MS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 75% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 60% typical for Mississippi schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 15 points, placing it in Mississippi's top 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 Stone Elementary School
Stone Elementary School's state test result (75.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stone Elementary School this school | 714 | 68.3% | 75.2% |
| Raleigh Elementary School RALEIGH | 649 | 69.0% | 60.1% |
| Anderson Elementary School Booneville | 551 | 71.9% | 69.5% |
| Southeast Elementary School Meridian | 562 | 69.4% | 50.4% |
| East Jones Elementary Laurel | 794 | 74.4% | 57.4% |
| Myrtle Attendance Center MYRTLE | 698 | 73.2% | 76.8% |
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 Stone Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Mississippi |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 75.2% | #50 of 428 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 71.1% | #73 of 439 ▼ 38 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.7% | #67 of 439 ▼ 26 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 714 | #59 of 453 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.8:1 | #388 of 408 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.5% | #169 of 409 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 68.3% | #338 of 444 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +8.0% | #46 of 90 |
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
714
+162 (+29%) vs 2020
-3% since 1990-91, when it was 737
Student : Teacher
18.8:1
was 16.2:1
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 | 714 | 38 | 18.8:1 | 68% (488) |
| 2023-24 | 702 | 44.7 | 15.7:1 | 64% (448) |
| 2022-23 | 648 | 42.8 | 15.1:1 | 100% (645) |
| 2020-21 | 552 | 34 | 16.2:1 | 99% (549) |
| 2017-18 | 661 | 40.8 | 16.2:1 | 72% (474) |
| 2015-16 | 697 | 45 | 15.5:1 | 71% (493) |
| 2010-11 | 772 | 45 | 17.2:1 | 68% (528) |
| 2000-01 | 819 | 45 | 18.2:1 | 58% (474) |
| 1990-91 | 737 | 36 | 20.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Stone Elementary School.
About Stone Elementary School
Stone Elementary School is a large elementary school in Wiggins, Mississippi. The school serves kindergarten through 5. Enrollment is 714 students. It has 60% more students than the average for elementary schools in Mississippi (about 446).
Stone County School District operates 4 schools. Combined enrollment is 2,532 students.
At Stone Elementary School, 65% of students are White. It is also 25% Black and 7% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Stone County is roughly 76% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Stone Elementary School scores 51%.
There are about 18.8 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Stone Elementary School, which has 38. Elementary schools in Mississippi average 15.9:1, 2.9 fewer students per teacher than here. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Stone Elementary School is about 68%.
On the allk12 Grade, Stone Elementary School lands at A, ahead of 93% of Mississippi public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Stone Elementary School is in the top 10% of Mississippi schools: 75.2% actual against 60.0% predicted.
The county, Stone County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $61,413, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 17% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 15%. The county's public schools total 5, with about 2,532 students.
Stone Middle School is about 1.3 miles from Stone Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around Stone Elementary School holds 3 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 69.4%, lower than Stone Elementary School's 75.2%.
For locale, NCES codes Stone Elementary School as Rural: Distant.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 714, up from 552 in 2020-21. The number of students per teacher increased from 16.2 to 18.8 over 4 years.
People can post here about homework, tutoring, and testing dates and other school topics. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Stone County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
18,894
Census ACS
Median income
$61,413
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
17%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
5
2,532 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Stone County School District
- Stone High SchoolHigh · 740 students
- Stone Middle SchoolMiddle · 575 students
- Perkinston Elementary SchoolElementary · 503 students
- CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION-SHSHigh
Other schools in Wiggins
- Stone High SchoolHigh · 740 students
- Stone Middle SchoolMiddle · 575 students
- CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION-SHSHigh
Other Stone Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 5 states are named Stone Elementary. Stone Elementary School is the largest of the 5.
- Stone ElementaryCrossville, TN · 611 students
- STONE ELEMENTARYHOBBS, NM · 429 students
- Stone Elementary SchoolAddison, IL · 357 students
- STONE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSTONE, ID · 21 students
Nearby schools
- Stone Middle School1.3 mi · 575
- Stone High School1.6 mi · 740
- Perkinston Elementary School4.4 mi · 503
- Saucier Elementary14.5 mi · 325
- South Forrest Attendance Center15.4 mi · 604
- Forrest County Agricultural High School16.3 mi · 562
Frequently asked questions
About Stone Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Stone Elementary School?
Stone Elementary School enrolls approximately 714 students in grades KG-05.
Is Stone Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Stone Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Stone Elementary School have?
Stone Elementary School employs 38 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.8:1.
What is the student diversity at Stone Elementary School?
Student demographics at Stone Elementary School are roughly 65% White, 2% Hispanic, 25% Black, 1% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is Stone Elementary School in?
Stone Elementary School is part of Stone County School District.
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