28th Street Elementary

As a modestly sized elementary school in Gulfport, Mississippi, 28th Street Elementary caters to 359 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under Gulfport School District.

Within Gulfport School District, which oversees 9 schools and 5,927 students, 28th Street Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, 28th Street Elementary logs that Black students make up the majority at 77%; the rest comes out to 9% multiracial, 8% Hispanic, 6% White. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

On the resource side, 28th Street Elementary reports 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Harrison County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Harrison County indicate median household earnings sit near $59,479, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Harrison County's 55 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,521 students), 28th Street Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: West Elementary, around 1.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Trend over the last 7 years. 28th Street Elementary's enrollment has shrank 20% since 2018, when it stood at 450 (now 359). The Black share of enrollment shrank from 88% to 77% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 today.

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