It has been a really bad week for the ice shelves of the quickly warming Antarctic peninsula, the part of the vast frozen continent that extends northward toward South America.
Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Ocean Springs is a city in Jackson County, Mississippi, about 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Biloxi and west of Gautier. It is part of the Pascagoula, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 17,225 at the 2000 U.S. Census. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the city of Ocean Springs had a population of 17,442.
The average number of students for middle schools in Mississippi is 461, so Ocean Springs Middle School is very large. The student to teacher ratio of 13:1 is significantly lower than the average for middle schools in Mississippi (15.0).