North Woolmarket Elementary and Mid, Biloxi MS

Original Research by School Decision on North Woolmarket Elementary and Mid

North Woolmarket Elementary and Middle sits on Old Woolmarket Road in the eastern reaches of Biloxi, serving kindergarten through eighth grade under the Harrison County School District. It is a traditional public school, neither charter nor magnet, and its enrollment is sizable for a combined elementary and middle configuration. The grade distribution is uneven, with the middle-grade cohorts noticeably larger than the elementary ones, which may reflect how families transition into the upper grades or how the attendance zone funnels students. Roughly half the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. The racial composition is predominantly white, with a Hispanic population making up the next largest share, followed by smaller Black, multiracial, Asian, and Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander groups. Data on individualized education programs and English learners was not reported, so those population sizes are unknown here.

On Mississippi's MAAP assessments, the school's mathematics results stand out as a clear strength. Proficiency is high across every tested grade from third through eighth, with the strongest showing in the elementary years and solid performance continuing into the middle grades. Science follows a similar arc, with fifth-grade proficiency particularly high and eighth-grade science also registering well. English language arts tells a more mixed story. Fourth and fifth grade ELA proficiency is strong, but the upper-grade ELA results soften as students move through seventh and eighth grade, where proficiency rates drop to their lowest points. A parent considering this school for a middle-grade child may want to look into how the ELA program is structured in those years and what supports exist for students reading below grade level.

Because the school ends at eighth grade, there is no graduation rate to report, and no high school course access data applies. The payload did not include discipline, attendance, staffing, or course-access information, so those dimensions of school environment are not covered here. Civil-rights data was also absent. Multi-year trend data was not available, so it is not possible to say from the provided material whether these proficiency patterns are improving, stable, or declining over time.

The surrounding community is Biloxi, a Gulf Coast city shaped by three forces that are hard to miss. Keesler Air Force Base sits within the city and has driven population and economy since World War II. The casino resort industry lines the beachfront along U.S. Highway 90, with eight operating properties. And the city retains its older identity as a seafood and maritime town, with a working lighthouse, a seafood industry museum, and an annual Blessing of the Fleet. The built environment is auto-oriented, with Interstate 10 running through the northern sections and Highway 90 as the primary coastal corridor. Street life clusters along the casino strip and in the downtown historic district, which combines late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century commercial buildings. Amtrak's Mardi Gras Service began serving the city in mid-2025, and the regional airport sits in neighboring Gulfport. Biloxi's post-Hurricane Katrina rebuilding has been ongoing, with redevelopment plans for commercial properties south of Highway 90 and a rebuilt Biloxi Bay Bridge. Population has declined modestly since the 2020 census.

Housing in the school's zip code sits above the Mississippi state benchmark but below the national one, and the area remains more affordable than much of the country on a price-to-income basis. Rents are moderate. Home values have been appreciating slowly. The district brief turned up no parent-relevant changes of lasting impact, such as referendums or curriculum overhauls, so there is nothing new to flag on that front.

What the picture amounts to is a large, predominantly white, moderate-income K-8 campus with genuinely strong mathematics and science instruction across the grade span, coupled with ELA results that hold up well in the elementary years but taper in middle school. Families whose children are moving into seventh or eighth grade would benefit from asking the school directly about its reading and writing program for those grades.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 390%

School 90% · District 67% · ▲ 24 pts above district

▲ 40 pts above state median · ▲ 27 pts above county median

Grade 492%

School 92% · District 68% · ▲ 24 pts above district

▲ 41 pts above state median · ▲ 25 pts above county median

Grade 581%

School 81% · District 56% · ▲ 25 pts above district

▲ 39 pts above state median · ▲ 28 pts above county median

Grade 683%

School 83% · District 69% · ▲ 14 pts above district

▲ 32 pts above state median · ▲ 19 pts above county median

Grade 776%

School 76% · District 57% · ▲ 19 pts above district

▲ 24 pts above state median · ▲ 7 pts above county median

Grade 879%

School 79% · District 54% · ▲ 25 pts above district

▲ 35 pts above state median · ▲ 14 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 374%

School 74% · District 66% · ▲ 7 pts above district

▲ 26 pts above state median · ▲ 14 pts above county median

Grade 486%

School 86% · District 65% · ▲ 21 pts above district

▲ 37 pts above state median · ▲ 26 pts above county median

Grade 584%

School 84% · District 69% · ▲ 15 pts above district

▲ 33 pts above state median · ▲ 18 pts above county median

Grade 671%

School 71% · District 61% · ▲ 10 pts above district

▲ 29 pts above state median · ▲ 10 pts above county median

Grade 764%

School 64% · District 45% · ▲ 19 pts above district

▲ 32 pts above state median · ▲ 15 pts above county median

Grade 862%

School 62% · District 57% · ▲ 5 pts above district

▲ 25 pts above state median · ▲ 2 pts above county median

Science

Grade 591%

School 91% · District 79% · ▲ 12 pts above district

▲ 26 pts above state median · ▲ 14 pts above county median

Grade 873%

School 73% · District 71% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▲ 19 pts above state median · even with county median

This schoolHARRISON CO SCHOOL DIST, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.