Quarles Elementary

Quarles Elementary is a reasonably sized elementary school in Long Beach, Mississippi, operated by Long Beach School District. The school instructs 429 students in grades pre-K through 3.

Long Beach School District comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,874 students; Quarles Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Quarles Elementary records that the largest single group is White, at 66% of enrollment; the rest looks like 15% Black, 12% multiracial, 4% Asian, 2% Hispanic.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Quarles Elementary has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. Roughly 58% of students at Quarles Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Harrison County (around 74%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Around the school, census data for Harrison County shows the typical household earns roughly $59,479 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Harrison County runs 55 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,521 students), of which Quarles Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Harper McCaughan Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Quarles Elementary.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. Quarles Elementary's enrollment has shrank 12% since 2018, when it stood at 485 (now 429). Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 21% to 15%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

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