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Woolmarket Elementary
Test scores
MAAP 2024-25 . % Proficient + AdvancedWhat this means: On the MAAP, Mississippi's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Woolmarket Elementary
Woolmarket Elementary, a medium-sized elementary campus in Biloxi, Mississippi, run under Harrison County School District, enrolls 533 students, covering grades K through 6.
Harrison County School District runs 22 schools in total, collectively educating 14,253 students. Woolmarket Elementary is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Woolmarket Elementary records that the largest single group is White at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 37% Hispanic, 16% Black, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 62% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.4:1. The state averages around 15.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 73% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
With demographic context factored in, Woolmarket Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 57.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 71.5%.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Harrison County indicate median household earnings sit near $59,479, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Woolmarket Elementary is one of 55 public schools in Harrison County (combined enrollment of about 30,521 students).
Nearest neighbor: River Oaks Elementary, around 3.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Woolmarket Elementary.
Woolmarket Elementary operates from a small-town location.
Over the past 7-year window. Woolmarket Elementary's enrollment has edged up 8% since 2018, when it stood at 492 (now 533). Hispanic enrollment moved from 6% to 37% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 in 2025.
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