Public school / Primary
New Hope Elementary School
Columbus, Mississippi
- NCES ID
- 280273000532
- District
- Lowndes Co School Dist
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
New Hope Elementary School is a public primary school in Columbus, Mississippi, run by Lowndes Co School Dist. It enrols 1,151 students — the 6416th 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
1,151
Teachers
93.0
Students per teacher
12.4
Free or reduced-price lunch
99.7%
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 Lowndes Co School Dist
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.
- 1New Hope Elementary School1,151 students
- 2Caledonia Elementary School1,060 students
- 3New Hope High School807 students
- 4Caledonia High School652 students
- 5New Hope Middle School613 students
- 6Caledonia Middle School498 students
- 7West Lowndes High School246 students
- 8West Lowndes Elementary234 students
- Enrollment+149.1%
- Teachers+220.7%
- Students per teacher−6.8%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−0.1%
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