Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 2
Purvis Lower Elementary, Purvis, MS
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 448
- Teachers (FTE)
- 29.0
- Students per teacher
- 15.4
- Grades
- PK to 2
This school's ratio is 2.1 higher than the district figure of 13.3. The Mississippi average across schools is 14.1. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 5976 U.S. Hwy. 11, Purvis, MS 39475
- Phone
- (601)794-3302
- District
- Lamar County School District
- County
- Lamar County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Rural: Distant
- NCES school ID
- 280240000968
School meals
- Free lunch
- 197
- Reduced-price lunch
- 46
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 24354.2% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 62Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- No
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other elementary schools in Lamar County School District
- Bellevue Elementary 1,145 students
- Sumrall Elementary School 960 students
- Longleaf Elementary 787 students
- Oak Grove Elementary 758 students
- Purvis Upper Elementary 377 students
- Lumberton Elementary School 287 students
- Baxterville School 217 students
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.