Enrollment
249
Elementary
DISTRICT 231 · STATE 446
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GREENVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 280162000252
Weddington Elementary School
668 Sampson Rd., Greenville, MS 38701 · (662) 334-2863 · Washington County
GRADES 01–05ELEMENTARY33-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL249 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 10% of Mississippi public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats 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
13.7:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.0:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
249 students
DISTRICT 100% · STATE 80%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 1 | 54 | 22% |
| Grade 2 | 47 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 54 | 22% |
| Grade 4 | 47 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 47 | 19% |
This year's 1st grade class (54) is 15% larger than its 5th grade class (47).
Student demographics
1%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 34% · 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
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MAAP 2024-25 . % Proficient + AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
29.7%
MS avg 45.9% . +3.5pp since 2023
Math
26.4%
MS avg 52.8% . +10.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the MAAP, Mississippi's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Mississippi schools, those numbers are about 46 and 53. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
MAAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 29.7% | 26.4% |
| 2023-24 | 26.2% | 15.9% |
% 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
33.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.1%
based on MS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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 Weddington Elementary School
Weddington Elementary School's state test result (33.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weddington Elementary School this school | 249 | 100.0% | 33.1% |
| Sanders Elementary School Hollandale | 246 | 100.0% | 36.7% |
| Fairview Elementary School Columbus | 244 | 99.6% | 43.9% |
| South Delta Elementary School ROLLING FORK | 234 | 100.0% | 37.4% |
| Clausell Elementary School Jackson | 231 | 100.0% | 37.4% |
| R.H. Bearden Elementary SUMNER | 251 | 98.8% | 33.3% |
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 Weddington Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Mississippi | In Washington County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 33.1% | #390 of 428 | #11 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.4% | #389 of 439 ▲ 32 | #12 of 12 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 29.7% | #378 of 439 ▲ 37 | #10 of 12 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 249 | #369 of 453 | #6 of 12 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.7:1 | #107 of 408 | #2 of 10 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 0.8% | #404 of 409 | #9 of 10 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #41 of 444 | #8 of 12 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -35.3% | #26 of 296 | #4 of 9 |
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
249
-16 (-6%) vs 2020
-54% since 1990-91, when it was 539
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
was 13.9:1
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 | 249 | 18.1 | 13.7:1 | 100% (249) |
| 2023-24 | 219 | 15.4 | 14.2:1 | 100% (219) |
| 2022-23 | 244 | 18.1 | 13.5:1 | 100% (244) |
| 2020-21 | 265 | 19 | 13.9:1 | 100% (265) |
| 2017-18 | 385 | 18.4 | 20.9:1 | 100% (385) |
| 2015-16 | 511 | 27 | 18.9:1 | 100% (511) |
| 2010-11 | 475 | 28 | 17.0:1 | 98% (464) |
| 2000-01 | 415 | 23 | 18.0:1 | 88% (365) |
| 1990-91 | 539 | 25 | 21.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Weddington Elementary School.
About Weddington Elementary School
Weddington Elementary School is a low-enrollment elementary school serving families in Greenville, Mississippi. It educates 249 students in grades 1 through 5. The average for elementary schools in Mississippi is about 446 students, so this school is 44% smaller than average.
Greenville Public School District has 11 schools; together they serve 3,385 students.
Federal enrollment data show Weddington Elementary School is 100% Black. Washington County's residents are about 72% Black, 28 points below the school's share. Pick two students at random and there is a 1% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Weddington Elementary School's 18.1 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 13.7:1. On average, elementary schools in Mississippi have 15.9:1, compared with 13.7:1 here. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 100%. For comparison, public schools in Washington County average 100%.
The allk12 Grade for Weddington Elementary School is D. Compared with Mississippi public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 10% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Compared with Mississippi schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Weddington Elementary School's results are 11.0 points below predicted: 33.1% against 44.1%.
Across Washington County, the median household income is $42,165, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 22% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 22%. Washington County is home to 25 public schools and about 6,329 public school students.
The closest public school to Weddington Elementary School is ARMSTRONG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 1.0 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Weddington Elementary School is 7th of 8 on proficiency.
Its location is classified as Town: Remote by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Over 4 years, Weddington Elementary School's enrollment declined 6%, to 249.
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Washington County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
42,765
Census ACS
Median income
$42,165
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
22%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
22%
Below federal line
Schools in county
25
6,329 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Greenville Public School District
- Greenville High SchoolHigh · 836 students
- T.L. Weston Middle SchoolMiddle · 412 students
- Stern Elementary SchoolElementary · 303 students
- Boyd Elementary SchoolElementary · 298 students
- Coleman Middle SchoolMiddle · 287 students
- Akin Elementary SchoolElementary · 255 students
Other schools in Greenville
- Greenville High SchoolHigh · 836 students
- O'Bannon Elementary SchoolElementary · 543 students
- O'Bannon High SchoolHigh · 474 students
- T.L. Weston Middle SchoolMiddle · 412 students
- Stern Elementary SchoolElementary · 303 students
- Boyd Elementary SchoolElementary · 298 students
Other Weddington Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Weddington Elementary. Weddington Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Weddington ElementaryMatthews, NC · 652 students
Nearby schools
- ARMSTRONG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 121
- McBride Elementary School1.2 mi · 163
- Coleman Middle School1.3 mi · 287
- Stern Elementary School1.9 mi · 303
- Webb Elementary School2.1 mi · 230
- Trigg Elementary School2.3 mi · 231
Frequently asked questions
About Weddington Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Weddington Elementary School?
Weddington Elementary School enrolls approximately 249 students in grades 01-05.
What grades does Weddington Elementary School serve?
Weddington Elementary School serves grades 01-05.
How many teachers does Weddington Elementary School have?
Weddington Elementary School employs 18 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.7:1.
What is the student diversity at Weddington Elementary School?
Student demographics at Weddington Elementary School are roughly 100% Black, 0% Two or more.
Who oversees Weddington Elementary School?
Weddington Elementary School is overseen by Greenville Public School District in Washington County.
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