Reeves Elementary

Set in Long Beach, Mississippi, Reeves Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack primary school, part of Long Beach School District. It enrolls 453 students across grades pre-K through 3.

Across the 5 schools in Long Beach School District (2,874 students total), Reeves Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Reeves Elementary logs that the largest single group is White, at 65% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 15% Black, 15% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. An estimated 58% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Harrison County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Reeves Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.3%, the actual is 71.1%, a residual of +5.8 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Harrison County indicate the typical household earns roughly $59,479 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Harrison County's 55 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,521 students), Reeves Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Harper McCaughan Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Reeves Elementary operates from a commuter-belt location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 3%: 468 students in 2018 compared to 453 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 in 2025.

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