Elementary · Mississippi

Sale Elementary School

Free meals for all

Sale Elementary School, a public elementary school in Columbus, Mississippi: grades pre-k–5, 290 students, 16.5 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Columbus Municipal School District.

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: 290
Teachers (FTE): 17.6
Students per teacher: 16.5
Grades: Pre-K–5; Elementary

More students per teacher than 78% of elementary schools in Mississippi

Median 14.9 · 423 schools compared

More students per teacher than 70% of elementary schools in the US

Median 14.6 · 50,575 schools compared

Smaller than 76% of elementary schools in Mississippi

Median 403 · 428 schools compared

Smaller than 75% of elementary schools in the US

Median 415 · 51,933 schools compared

What it offers

Grades: Elementary · Grades Pre-K–5
Type: District school · Regular
Instruction: In person
Meals: Free breakfast and lunch for every student
Area: Remote town
Run by: Columbus Municipal School District

Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Columbus Municipal School District.

Location

Address: 520 Warpath Road, Columbus, MS 39702
Phone: (662)241-7260
City or town: Columbus
County: Lowndes County

Website Quality of life in Columbus Schools in Columbus

Nearby elementary schools

The closest public elementary schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.

School	Grades	Students	Students / teacher
Fairview Elementary SchoolFree meals for all	Pre-K–5	244	15.4	1.2 mi
Stokes Beard Elementary SchoolFree meals for all	Pre-K–5	369	14.5	1.9 mi
Cook Elementary SchoolFree meals for all	Pre-K–5	415	14.2	3.1 mi
Franklin AcademyFree meals for all	Pre-K–5	231	14.0	3.3 mi
New Hope Elementary	Pre-K–5	1,191	14.0	5.2 mi
West Lowndes Elementary	Pre-K–6	276	11.1	11.4 mi

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).

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