23 public K-12 schools in Gulfport from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Gulfport has more public-school enrollment than 88% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Gulfport sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.
Gulfport's list includes 10 elementary, 3 middle, and 4 high-school campuses, plus 6 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.
80.9% of enrollment in reporting Gulfport schools is eligible for free lunch, while the city list spans 3 districts. That pairing makes a citywide average especially easy to misread: the need measure follows students, but staffing decisions, calendars, program rules, and federal allocations are administered through separate district structures. The 47-point gap between Roger Amos Mcmurtry School and Harrison Central High School shows how much reported resource capacity can vary inside the same municipal label. Compare schools within the same district first, then use the city view to see how those local systems differ.
Gulfport school enrollment ranges from 21 students (lowest) to 1,702 students (highest), a spread of 1,681 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
The reported share is at least 75%, indicating a high concentration of measured economic need. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Roger Amos Mcmurtry School | 72 |
| 2. | Harrison Co Child Development Cen | 61 |
| 3. | Harrison Central Elementary | 59 |
| 4. | Orange Grove Elementary | 57 |
| 5. | Lyman Elementary School | 54 |
| 6. | Three Rivers Elementary | 54 |
| 7. | Crossroads Elementary School | 52 |
| 8. | Lizana Elementary School | 52 |
| 9. | Bayou View Elementary School | 51 |
| 10. | Bayou View Middle School | 49 |
| 11. | Gulfport Central Middle School | 49 |
| 12. | Pass Road Elementary School | 49 |
| 13. | River Oaks Elementary School | 45 |
| 14. | Anniston Avenue Elementary School | 45 |
| 15. | Bel Aire Elementary School | 44 |
| 16. | Twenty Eighth St Elem | 40 |
| 17. | Gulfport High School | 37 |
| 18. | West Elementary School | 36 |
| 19. | North Gulfport Elementary and Middl | 32 |
| 20. | West Harrison Middle School | 32 |
| 21. | Central Elem | 32 |
| 22. | West Harrison High School | 27 |
| 23. | Harrison Central High School | 25 |
Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.
Roger Amos Mcmurtry School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Gulfport schools in this federal-data comparison at 72/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Gulfport has 23 public schools with a total enrollment of 14,147 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.9:1.
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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.
