Public school / Primary
West Lauderdale Elementary School
Meridian, Mississippi
- NCES ID
- 280243001241
- District
- Lauderdale Co School Dist
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
West Lauderdale Elementary School is a public primary school in Meridian, Mississippi, run by Lauderdale Co School Dist. It enrols 687 students — the 20130th 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
687
Teachers
48.0
Students per teacher
14.3
Free or reduced-price lunch
99.6%
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 Lauderdale 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.
- 1Northeast Lauderdale Elementary699 students
- 2West Lauderdale Elementary School687 students
- 3Northeast Lauderdale High School642 students
- 4West Lauderdale High School589 students
- 5Northeast Lauderdale Middle School565 students
- 6West Lauderdale Middle School525 students
- 7Clarkdale Elementary School520 students
- 8Southeast Lauderdale Elementary503 students
- Enrollment+48.7%
- Teachers+65.5%
- Students per teacher+7.5%
- 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