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Petal Primary School
A public regular school in Petal, Mississippi, in Petal School District. NCES’s record for 2024–25.
The school in 2024–25
- 1,016
- Students enrolled
- 74.6
- Teachers, full-time equivalent
- 64763.7% of students
- Eligible for free or reduced-price lunch
- Eligibility, as the state reported it. It is not a count of family income.
- 191
- Directly certified for free meals
Students by grade, and by race and sex, 2024–25
| Grade | Students |
|---|---|
| Pre-Kindergarten | 81 |
| Kindergarten | 313 |
| Grade 1 | 320 |
| Grade 2 | 302 |
| Not Specified | 0 |
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| Race/ethnicity | Female | Male |
|---|---|---|
| American Indian or Alaska Native | 0 | 0 |
| Asian | 3 | 2 |
| Black or African American | 89 | 104 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 46 | 44 |
| Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 0 | 1 |
| Two or more races | 22 | 27 |
| White | 331 | 347 |
| Not Specified | Not in NCES’s file | Not in NCES’s file |
NCES’s own subtotals, under its own names. The race and sex counts are NCES’s subtotal without adult education, so they can add to less than the enrollment above. A count NCES suppressed or did not receive says so; this site computes no cell, total or share from them.
How this compares
- Students enrolled: 1,016 in 2024–25
- Larger than 91% of the 95,462 public schools in the fifty states and DC that report an enrollment. Larger than 92% of the 856 schools in Mississippi that report one.
- Pupils per teacher: 13.6 in 2024–25
- More than 40% of the 91,868 schools reporting both pupils and teachers. Pupils per full-time-equivalent teacher, the school’s own two counts.
The school’s entry
- Status
- Open
- Type
- Regular School
- Charter
- No
- Grades
- Pre-kindergarten to Grade 2
- Level
- Elementary
- Locale
- Rural, fringe
- County
- Forrest County
- School lunch program
- No
- Virtual instruction
- No virtual instruction
- NCES school ID
- 280353001067
Sources
- Common Core of Data (CCD), 2024–25 — National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education · U.S. Government work · retrieved September 30, 2026
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), 2024–25.
Compiled automatically from Common Core of Data (CCD), 2024–25 by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built
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