Public school
Early Head Start Nicholson
Picayune, Mississippi
- NCES ID
- 280363001383
- District
- Picayune School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Early Head Start Nicholson is a public school in Picayune, Mississippi, run by Picayune School District. It enrols 40 students — the 92509th largest of 1,057 public schools in Mississippi.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
40
Teachers
18.0
Students per teacher
2.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
100.0%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Picayune School District
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Picayune Memorial High School941 students
- 2Picayune Junior High School510 students
- 3West Side Elementary School427 students
- 4Roseland Park Elementary School366 students
- 5Nicholson Elementary School363 students
- 6South Side Lower Elementary School335 students
- 7South Side Elementary School298 students
- 8Early Head Start Rosa Street151 students
- Enrollment−91.3%
- Teachers−37.9%
- Students per teacher−83.5%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+0.2%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory