Della Davidson Elementary, 209 Commonwealth Blvd.: grades 2 and 3, 780 students in 2023-24, and an A from the state with 473 points for 2025-26.
Last checked Oct. 16, 2026. Sources: the Della Davidson Elementary website and its contact page, the Oxford School District’s schools page, boundaries page and 2026-27 calendar, the Mississippi Department of Education’s 2026 accountability results and report card, and the federal NCES school directory.
Della Davidson Elementary School is the Oxford School District’s school for second and third grade. Every district child in those grades attends it, between Bramlett Elementary and Central Elementary. The district calls it a National Blue Ribbon School on its schools page.
- Address: 209 Commonwealth Blvd., Oxford, MS 38655
- Phone: 662-236-4870
- Grades: 2 and 3
- Website: ddes.oxfordsd.org
Who to call
- Della Davidson front office: 662-236-4870, 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
- Enroll a student: the district’s registration page and registration staff
- Buses: the district’s Transportation Department, 662-234-3541, and its bus routes page
- Oxford School District office: 200 Bolt Blvd., 662-234-3541
- Is my address in the district? Lafayette County Tax Assessor, 662-234-5562
Principal
Principal Patches Calhoun, according to the school’s website, which lists two assistant principals: Carlee Harrison and LaJeremy Hughes.
Enrollment and teachers
The most recent federal count, from the NCES directory for the 2023-24 school year, is 780 students and 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 14.2 students per teacher. The state’s 2025-26 report card counts 52.5 teacher FTEs at the school.
The district says every Della Davidson student takes art, music, physical education, computer science and library, with gifted classes, special education, English learner classes and tiered interventions for students who qualify, according to its schools page.
State report card
Della Davidson earned an A for 2025-26, with 473 of 700 possible points, in the Mississippi Department of Education’s results file, released Oct. 15, 2026. An elementary school needed 457 points for an A this year.
From the same file and the school’s report card:
| Measure, 2025-26 | Della Davidson |
|---|---|
| Reading proficiency | 71.2% |
| Math proficiency | 81.9% |
| Reading growth, all students | 74.5% |
| Math growth, all students | 69.7% |
| Chronically absent students | 9.2% |
The school has no science score; for schools that do not test science, the state equates the score to the 700-point scale, according to the file’s notes. Mississippi grades every school and district from A to F, counting test scores, how much students improve from one year to the next, with extra weight on the lowest-performing 25% of students, and English learners’ progress, according to its guide to the system (PDF). Because the writing part of the English test was field tested in 2026, the state calculated this year’s grades from the higher of the 2025-26 or 2024-25 English results. The state says 2025-26 grades set a new baseline that “cannot be compared to grades for previous school years.”
Attendance zone
The Oxford School District has no attendance zones inside its boundary: it runs one school for each grade band, so every district second and third grader is assigned to Della Davidson. Students arrive from Bramlett Elementary and move on to Central Elementary (grades 4 and 5), Oxford Intermediate (6), Oxford Middle (7 and 8) and Oxford High.
The district’s boundary does not follow the city limits. Its boundaries page has a map and says it “should not be considered official confirmation of school assignment or district boundaries”; it asks families to confirm a property with the Lafayette County Tax Assessor at 662-234-5562. Homes outside the boundary are in the Lafayette County School District, where second graders attend Lafayette Elementary and third graders Lafayette Upper Elementary. We found no boundary change approved by the school board.
Calendar and bell times
The school’s website lists breakfast and student drop-off from 7 to 7:40 a.m., classes from 7:40 a.m. to 2:20 p.m. and dismissal from 2:20 to 2:50 p.m.
From the district’s 2026-27 academic calendar:
- Thursday, Oct. 22: progress reports
- Nov. 23-27: Thanksgiving break, all schools and offices closed
- Friday, Dec. 18: early dismissal
- Dec. 21 to Jan. 1: Christmas break; students return Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2027
- March 8-12, 2027: spring break
More
- The district’s page for Della Davidson and the school’s website
- The state’s Della Davidson report card
- Every public school in Oxford, with grades and report cards: our Oxford public schools guide
- Registration, the school board and the full calendar: our Oxford schools guide
- The area around the school: our Oxford Commons neighborhood guide
Frequently asked questions
What grades does Della Davidson Elementary serve?
Second and third grade. It is the Oxford School District’s only school for those grades, at 209 Commonwealth Blvd.
What grade did Della Davidson get from the state?
An A for 2025-26, with 473 of 700 possible points, in the Mississippi Department of Education’s results released Oct. 15, 2026. An elementary school needed 457 points for an A.
What time does Della Davidson Elementary start?
Classes run 7:40 a.m. to 2:20 p.m., according to the school’s website. Breakfast and drop-off are 7 to 7:40 a.m., and dismissal runs 2:20 to 2:50 p.m.
Which high school does Della Davidson feed into?
Oxford High School. Della Davidson students move on to Central Elementary for fourth and fifth grade and through the district’s other grade-band schools to Oxford High.
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