Public school / Primary / Charter
Joel E Smilow Collegiate
Jackson, Mississippi
- NCES ID
- 280019301502
- District
- Joel E Smilow Collegiate
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Joel E Smilow Collegiate is a public primary school in Jackson, Mississippi, run by Joel E Smilow Collegiate. It enrols 569 students — the 29642nd 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
569
Teachers
37.0
Students per teacher
15.4
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 Joel E Smilow Collegiate
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.
- Enrollment+23.2%
- Teachers+27.6%
- Students per teacher+15.8%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+0.2%
Where this sits
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