Elementary · Mississippi
Oak Forest Elementary School
Free meals for allOak Forest Elementary School, a public elementary school in Jackson, Mississippi: grades k–5, 436 students, 18.8 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Jackson Public Schools.
Size and class size
Compared with elementary schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 436
- Teachers (FTE)
- 23.1
- Students per teacher
- 18.8
- Grades
- K–5
- Elementary
More students per teacher than 95% of elementary schools in Mississippi
Median 14.9 · 423 schools compared
More students per teacher than 83% of elementary schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 50,575 schools compared
Larger than 58% of elementary schools in Mississippi
Median 403 · 428 schools compared
Larger than 54% of elementary schools in the US
Median 415 · 51,933 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- Elementary · Grades K–5
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Midsize city
- Run by
- Jackson Public Schools
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Jackson Public Schools.
Location
- Address
- 1831 Smallwood Street, Jackson, MS 39212
- Phone
- (601)371-4330
- City or town
- Jackson
- County
- Hinds County
Nearby elementary schools
The closest public elementary schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Bates Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | K–5 | 482 | 18.3 |
Wilkins Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | K–5 | 434 | 20.9 |
Key Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 259 | 16.0 |
Shirley Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | — | — |
Clausell Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | K–5 | 231 | 14.3 |
Timberlawn Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | K–5 | 295 | 15.4 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level.
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