Wilkinson County Elementary
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Test scores
MAAP 2024-25 . % Proficient + AdvancedWhat this means: On the MAAP, Mississippi's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 18 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 44% typical for Mississippi schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Wilkinson County Elementary
Located at 522 POND PINCKNEYVILLE, in WOODVILLE, Mississippi, Wilkinson County Elementary is a small elementary campus that instructs 306 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of Wilkinson County School District. Enrollment runs roughly 31% smaller than the state mean of about 446.
Across the 3 schools in Wilkinson County School District (694 students total), Wilkinson County Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Looking at the student body, Wilkinson County Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (94%). Beyond that, the school lists 4% White. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 67%.
In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.9:1, putting Wilkinson County Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
After controlling for student poverty, Wilkinson County Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 44.1%; this one comes in at 25.5%, -18.6 points off the demographic line.
In the surrounding community, census data for Wilkinson County shows the typical household earns roughly $35,311 per year, 9% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 25%. In all, Wilkinson County runs 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 694 students), of which Wilkinson County Elementary is one.
Wilkinson County High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, Wilkinson County Elementary comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 33.1%.
The school occupies an outlying site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Wilkinson County Elementary has held roughly steady, going from 303 students in 2018 to 306 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 20.4:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.
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Wilkinson County at a glance
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