Public school / Primary
Parkway Elementary School
Tupelo, Mississippi
- NCES ID
- 280432001256
- District
- Tupelo Public School Dist
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Parkway Elementary School is a public primary school in Tupelo, Mississippi, run by Tupelo Public School Dist. It enrols 452 students — the 43579th 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
452
Teachers
42.0
Students per teacher
10.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
99.3%
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 Tupelo Public 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.
- 1Tupelo High School2,001 students
- 2Tupelo Middle School1,080 students
- 3Milam Elementary School557 students
- 4Lawhon Elementary School527 students
- 5Parkway Elementary School452 students
- 6Joyner Elementary School416 students
- 7Thomas Street Elementary School402 students
- 8Lawndale Elementary School387 students
- Enrollment−2.2%
- Teachers+44.8%
- Students per teacher−18.8%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−0.5%
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