Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 5
West Hancock Elementary, Picayune, MS
West Hancock Elementary is a public elementary school in Picayune, part of Hancock School District. It enrolled 349 students in 2024-25, with 13.4 students per full-time teacher.
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 349
- Teachers (FTE)
- 26.0
- Students per teacher
- 13.4
- Grades
- K to 5
The Mississippi average across schools is 14.1. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
This school13.4
Mississippi14.1
United States15.3
School details
- Address
- 23350 Highway 43, Picayune, MS 39466
- Phone
- (228)586-6054
- District
- Hancock School District
- County
- Hancock County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Rural: Distant
- NCES school ID
- 280174001338
School meals
Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
- Free lunch
- 202
- Reduced-price lunch
- 60
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 26275.1% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 88Students 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 Hancock School District
- East Hancock Elementary School 633 students
- South Hancock Elementary School 480 students
- Hancock North Central School 404 students
Elementary schools elsewhere in Picayune
- West Side Elementary Picayune School District
- Roseland Park Elementary Picayune School District
- Nicholson Elementary Picayune School District
- South Side Lower Elementary Picayune School District
- South Side Upper Elementary Picayune School District
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.