West Elementary

West Elementary operates as a mid-sized elementary school in Gulfport, Mississippi, one of the schools within Gulfport School District. Current enrollment sits at 492 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Gulfport School District comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 5,927 students; West Elementary is among them.

On demographics, West Elementary lists that Black students make up the majority at 74%. The remainder comes out to 10% White, 10% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, West Elementary has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. Roughly 99% of students at West Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Harrison County's rate of about 74%.

Around the school, Harrison County reports that median household earnings sit near $59,479, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Harrison County's 55 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,521 students), West Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Gulfport Central Middle, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around West Elementary.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. West Elementary's enrollment has ticked up 35% since 2018, when it stood at 364 (now 492). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 17% to 10%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 today.

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