Sudduth Elementary School

Sudduth Elementary School is a K-5 school of expansive scale in STARKVILLE, Mississippi, overseen by Starkville Oktibbeha Consolidated School District, educateing 920 students in grades pre-K through 1. By comparison, Mississippi's public schools average about 446 students each, so Sudduth Elementary School sits 106% above that benchmark.

Starkville Oktibbeha Consolidated School District runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 4,880 students. Sudduth Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Sudduth Elementary School records that Black students make up the majority at 66%; the rest comes out to 27% White, 4% Asian. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 36%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 68% of students at Sudduth Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Across the wider county, census data for Oktibbeha County shows the typical household earns roughly $46,695 per year, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Oktibbeha County runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,880 students), of which Sudduth Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Henderson Ward Stewart Elementary School, roughly 0.7 miles away. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sudduth Elementary School has rose 14%, going from 806 students in 2018 to 920 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 today.

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