Wilkins Elementary School

Located at 1970 Castle Hill Drive, in Jackson, Mississippi, Wilkins Elementary School is a mid-tier K-5 school that works with 434 students (grades K through 5), overseen by Jackson Public Schools.

Jackson Public Schools runs 35 schools in total, collectively educating 16,870 students. Wilkins Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Wilkins Elementary School records that 94% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder is composed of 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Hinds County as a whole is about 72% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Hinds County runs at roughly 88%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Zooming out to the county, Hinds County reports that median household earnings sit near $49,402, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. In all, Hinds County runs 84 public schools (combined enrollment of about 32,870 students), of which Wilkins Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: WINGFIELD HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Wilkins Elementary School.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Wilkins Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 6% since 2018, when it stood at 461 (now 434). Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 98% to 94%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 23.9:1 in 2018 to 20.9:1 today.

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