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Van Winkle Elementary School

Public Prekindergarten Grades PK
275
Students ?
15.3
Student/teacher ratio ?
$10,543
Per pupil spending ?
100%
Free/discounted lunch ?
 1655 Whiting Road
       Jackson, MS  39209

(601) 923-2547

District: Jackson Public Schools

Racial breakdown:

African American:
90.5%
Two or more races:
8.7%
Hispanic:
0.7%
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At a glance
▼ Ranking trend: Declining — 25th percentile in 2010 → 7th in 2019
Worth a look
!Test scores below the Mississippi average (25% vs 51% meeting standards)
!Ranking has slipped — down 18 percentile points since 2010
!Mathematics scores 33 pts below the Mississippi average
Students meeting standards (2024-2025) ?
This school25%
District avg29%
Mississippi avg51%
Not ranked this year
Van Winkle Elementary School did not have enough recent test-score data to be ranked. Check the trend below for past years.
109th of 133Jackson Public Schools among Mississippi districts
Statewide rank percentile over time (100 = the top-ranked school in the state; click a legend item to add a student group)
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All Students

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankMississippi percentileRating
201912.7329 of 3547.1%☆☆☆☆☆
201812.0332 of 3515.4%☆☆☆☆☆
20179.7400 of 4061.5%☆☆☆☆☆
201613.5366 of 3947.1%☆☆☆☆☆
201519.6351 of 40212.7%★☆☆☆☆
201437.7262 of 39433.5%★★☆☆☆
201332.7299 of 40826.7%★☆☆☆☆
201232.0303 of 41426.8%★☆☆☆☆
201136.5294 of 41829.7%★★☆☆☆
201030.7301 of 40325.3%★☆☆☆☆
200940.9251 of 39236.0%★★☆☆☆
200834.7275 of 39430.2%★★☆☆☆
By subject vs Mississippi (2024-2025) ?
English Language Arts29%-19 vs state
Mathematics22%-33 vs state

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Students at Van Winkle Elementary School are 91% African American, 9% Two or more races.

In the 2024-25 school year, 275 students attended Van Winkle Elementary School.

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Latest Mississippi data All new data »
2024–25 attendance dataNewOct 6, 2026
2025–26 MAAP test scoresAug 21, 2026
2023–24 school spending dataSep 26, 2025
2023–24 through 2024–25 attendance data & graduation ratesSep 26, 2025


SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Mississippi Department of Education.

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