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What's the most underrated thing about VANCLEAVE LOWER ELEMENTARY that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
686
Elementary
DISTRICT 570 · STATE 446
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JACKSON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 280216000964
Vancleave Lower Elementary
12602 Hwy 57, Vancleave, MS 39565 · (228) 283-3900 · Jackson County
GRADES PK–03ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL686 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 73% of Mississippi public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
17.1:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.9:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
60%
409 students
DISTRICT 58% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 22 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 163 | 24% |
| Grade 1 | 170 | 25% |
| Grade 2 | 169 | 25% |
| Grade 3 | 162 | 24% |
Student demographics
27%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
Test scores
MAAP 2024-25 . % Proficient + AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
65.2%
MS avg 45.9% . -14.9pp since 2023
Math
61.1%
MS avg 52.8% . -8.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the MAAP, Mississippi's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 61 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 15 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 8 points.
MAAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 65.2% | 61.1% |
| 2023-24 | 80.1% | 69.5% |
% Proficient + Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: MAAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
69.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.4%
based on MS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% typical for Mississippi schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Mississippi's top nor bottom 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 Vancleave Lower Elementary
Vancleave Lower Elementary's state test result (69.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vancleave Lower Elementary this school | 686 | 59.6% | 69.0% |
| Mooreville Elementary School MOOREVILLE | 722 | 54.4% | 74.4% |
| East Central Lower Elementary Moss Point | 567 | 57.8% | 69.7% |
| East Central Upper Elementary Moss Point | 566 | 56.9% | 70.9% |
| Kossuth Elementary School Corinth | 570 | 62.3% | 64.8% |
| Petal Elementary 3-4 Petal | 636 | 60.1% | 70.9% |
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 Vancleave Lower Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Mississippi | In Jackson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 69.0% | #94 of 428 | #8 of 20 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 61.1% | #140 of 439 ▼ 46 | #12 of 21 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.2% | #70 of 439 ▼ 46 | #8 of 21 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 686 | #67 of 453 | #2 of 22 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.1:1 | #352 of 408 | #17 of 19 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 27.0% | #302 of 409 | #17 of 19 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 59.6% | #379 of 444 | #15 of 20 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +38.3% | #6 of 90 | #1 of 6 |
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
686
+177 (+35%) vs 2020
+22% since 2000-01, when it was 562
Student : Teacher
17.1:1
was 15.4:1
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 | 686 | 40 | 17.1:1 | 60% (409) |
| 2023-24 | 657 | 47.5 | 13.8:1 | 56% (367) |
| 2022-23 | 659 | 44.3 | 14.9:1 | 100% (656) |
| 2020-21 | 509 | 33 | 15.4:1 | 99% (506) |
| 2017-18 | 496 | 31 | 16.0:1 | 51% (253) |
| 2015-16 | 516 | 29 | 17.8:1 | 59% (306) |
| 2010-11 | 591 | 33 | 17.9:1 | 58% (342) |
| 2000-01 | 562 | 30 | 18.7:1 | 41% (230) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Vancleave Lower Elementary.
About Vancleave Lower Elementary
Vancleave Lower Elementary operates as a large elementary school in Vancleave, Mississippi. It reports enrollment of 686 students in pre-K through 3. On average, elementary schools in Mississippi enroll around 446, and this school is 54% bigger than that mark.
Vancleave Lower Elementary is part of Jackson County School District, where 13 schools serve 8,845 students.
Roughly 85% of students at Vancleave Lower Elementary are White. The remaining students are 6% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 3% Black. Among people living in Jackson County, the White share is about 67%. The diversity index for Vancleave Lower Elementary is 27%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 17.1 students per teacher. Statewide, elementary schools in Mississippi average 15.9:1. Of all students at Vancleave Lower Elementary, 60% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The figure for public schools in Jackson County is close, at 59%.
Vancleave Lower Elementary earns a B+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 73% of Mississippi public elementary schools.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Vancleave Lower Elementary, the prediction is 64.4% and the result is 69.0%.
In Jackson County, home to about 145,249 people, median household income comes to about $66,201, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of people live in poverty. There are 46 public schools in the county, enrolling about 22,712, Vancleave Lower Elementary among them.
Vancleave High School sits about 0.2 miles from Vancleave Lower Elementary. Vancleave Lower Elementary has 3 other public schools within five miles. Vancleave Lower Elementary comes in 5th of 8 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The school's locale code, Rural: Fringe, means it is in rural territory close to an urban area.
Enrollment rose 35% over 4 years, reaching 686 in 2024-25. The ratio was 15.4:1 in 2020-21 and 17.1:1 in 2024-25.
Vancleave Lower Elementary has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Jackson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
145,249
Census ACS
Median income
$66,201
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
27%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
46
22,712 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Jackson County School District
- St. Martin High SchoolHigh · 1,289 students
- St. Martin Middle SchoolMiddle · 946 students
- East Central High SchoolHigh · 777 students
- Vancleave High SchoolHigh · 737 students
- St. Martin East ElementaryElementary · 704 students
- St. Martin Upper ElementaryElementary · 600 students
Other schools in Vancleave
- Vancleave High SchoolHigh · 737 students
- Vancleave Middle SchoolMiddle · 562 students
- Vancleave Upper ElementaryElementary · 333 students
- JACKSON COUNTY VOCATIONAL CENTERHigh
Nearby schools
- Vancleave High School0.2 mi · 737
- Vancleave Middle School0.3 mi · 562
- Vancleave Upper Elementary1.2 mi · 333
- Martin Bluff7.7 mi · 410
- Singing River8.3 mi · 416
- Gautier High8.4 mi · 900
Frequently asked questions
About Vancleave Lower ElementaryHow many students attend Vancleave Lower Elementary?
Vancleave Lower Elementary enrolls approximately 686 students in grades PK-03.
Is Vancleave Lower Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Vancleave Lower Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-03.
How many teachers does Vancleave Lower Elementary have?
Vancleave Lower Elementary employs 40 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.1:1.
How diverse is Vancleave Lower Elementary?
Vancleave Lower Elementary reports a student body of 85% White, 6% Hispanic, 3% Black, 6% Two or more.
What district is Vancleave Lower Elementary in?
Vancleave Lower Elementary is part of Jackson County School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.