Trent Lott

Trent Lott operates as a reasonably sized intermediate school in Pascagoula, Mississippi, one of the schools within Pascagoula-Gautier School District. Current enrollment sits at 524 students spanning grades 5 through 6.

Pascagoula-Gautier School District runs 17 schools in total, collectively educating 6,579 students. Trent Lott is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Trent Lott shows that 44% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 26% White, 25% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Jackson County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 72% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Jackson County's rate of about 59%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Jackson County put median household earnings sit near $66,201, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Jackson County runs 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,712 students), of which Trent Lott is one.

Central Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Trent Lott.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Trent Lott has shrank 22%, going from 670 students in 2018 to 524 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment shrank from 48% to 44% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 in 2025.

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