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What Mississippi School Districts Spend Per Student

The median Mississippi school district spends $11,457 per student per year, $3,086 below the national median of $14,543, across all 147 districts the state reports. The 137 of them a ZIP code can reach are listed below, and their 437,967 students account for $4.8 billion of current spending in fiscal year 2022.

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Mississippi at a Glance

Median district, per student$11,457
National median district$14,543
Districts listed137 of 147
Students listed437,967
Median district, math≈41%
Median district, reading≈37%

Every Mississippi District, by Enrollment

Spending is current spending divided by fall membership for fiscal year 2022. Proficiency and graduation rates are school year 2018-19, the last year before the pandemic interrupted state testing, so the money and the results are not from the same year. A figure marked ≈ is one the federal file published as a range rather than a value, so small groups of children stay unidentifiable; it is the middle of that range and within ten points of the real one. A dash means the federal files publish no value under that district's ID. 10 further Mississippi districts are missing because the federal boundary file places them in no ZIP code, which is normal for charter and virtual districts with no attendance area.

Mississippi school districts by enrollment, with spending per student for fiscal year 2022
DistrictStudentsPer studentMathReadingGraduation
DeSoto County School District34,469$8,77861%48%89%
Jackson Public School District19,348$12,15523%25%75%
Rankin County School District18,598$10,53360%54%90%
Harrison County School District14,318$10,04256%50%86%
Madison County School District13,032$11,12761%61%91%
Lamar County School District10,325$10,06361%53%92%
Jackson County School District8,823$10,22158%53%89%
Jones County School District8,541$8,88751%45%90%
Tupelo Public School District7,151$11,68259%49%85%
Vicksburg Warren School District6,955$12,11233%32%81%
Pascagoula-Gautier School District6,583$14,59643%42%87%
Gulfport School District6,349$10,22756%48%87%
Lee County School District6,251$10,27948%41%84%
Biloxi Public School District5,978$12,13567%51%86%
Ocean Springs School District5,906$9,61267%58%91%
Lauderdale County School District5,873$10,34548%45%83%
Lowndes County School District5,305$10,03857%51%91%
Clinton Public School District5,196$8,81867%60%88%
Hinds County School District5,140$10,06341%34%86%
Starkville Oktibbeha Consolidated School District4,902$11,90535%33%76%
Meridian Public School District4,758$12,63325%21%77%
Oxford School District4,729$10,96870%57%≈87%
Petal School District4,264$9,77876%62%90%
South Panola School District4,260$10,52153%40%85%
Hancock County School District4,134$10,53958%53%89%
George County School District4,083$9,40544%43%≈98%
Pearl Public School District4,071$10,05053%51%≈92%
Greenwood-Leflore Consolidated School District3,978$11,911———
Scott County School District3,875$9,82637%33%80%
Grenada School District3,806$10,47063%49%≈87%
Greenville Public School District3,668$11,53624%23%73%
Hattiesburg Public School District3,631$13,12137%32%≈77%
Pontotoc County Schools3,472$9,40455%44%88%
Itawamba County School District3,391$9,61254%45%81%
Pearl River County School District3,334$8,86847%47%87%
Picayune School District3,315$11,95343%43%≈82%
Columbus Municipal School District3,213$12,23920%23%71%
Simpson County School District3,146$11,06432%33%90%
Alcorn School District3,131$10,32652%47%95%
Neshoba County School District3,091$8,95855%45%≈87%
Canton Public School District3,071$11,40833%24%≈72%
Sunflower County Consolidated School District3,059$13,00432%23%73%
Union County School District2,961$9,60869%59%≈92%
Long Beach School District2,915$10,12360%57%≈92%
Tishomingo County Schools2,893$11,10856%52%92%
Cleveland School District2,877$11,33929%28%81%
Wayne County School District2,851$11,62132%30%82%
Natchez-Adams School District2,829$14,69824%24%83%
Laurel School District2,800$10,63827%22%≈92%
Lincoln County School District2,789$9,07139%45%82%
Lafayette County School District2,776$10,59963%52%≈87%
Marshall County School District2,758$9,98832%33%85%
West Point Consolidated School District2,732$12,06938%30%≈82%
Brookhaven School District2,657$11,34232%34%≈82%
Louisville Municipal School District2,625$10,88351%37%88%
Covington County School District2,605$11,89333%32%85%
Leake County School District2,577$10,53032%31%≈77%
South Tippah School District2,533$10,82852%40%≈87%
Holmes County Consolidated School District2,502$13,24115%16%—
Corinth School District2,501$9,08242%43%≈92%
Smith County School District2,475$9,73047%43%87%
Stone County School District2,411$9,97860%53%≈87%
Copiah County School District2,298$9,85634%32%≈87%
Pontotoc City Schools2,298$9,82759%51%≈92%
Prentiss County School District2,288$10,78657%53%≈82%
McComb School District2,242$13,19135%21%≈77%
North Pike School District2,219$10,28143%41%≈87%
Chickasaw County School District2,211$9,753———
Kosciusko School District2,198$12,05648%40%≈82%
Calhoun County School District2,180$11,56040%38%≈92%
Forrest County Schools2,160$13,33346%42%≈95%
Monroe County School District2,137$9,71755%51%≈92%
Yazoo City Municipal School District2,124$10,10411%10%≈72%
New Albany Public Schools2,113$10,31964%53%≈82%
Clarksdale Municipal School District2,108$12,18019%18%≈77%
Tate County School District2,036$10,48639%33%≈77%
Pass Christian Public School District1,978$12,58556%54%≈92%
Marion County School District1,942$12,25946%38%≈87%
Poplarville Separate School District1,830$10,22745%45%≈92%
Lawrence County School District1,770$11,53036%33%≈87%
Webster County School District1,758$9,99054%47%≈87%
Bay St. Louis-Waveland School District1,736$14,35847%46%≈92%
Newton County School District1,703$10,57058%54%≈87%
Walthall County School District1,689$11,61326%30%≈77%
Tunica County School District1,667$15,35039%25%≈92%
Western Line School District1,664$12,78441%37%≈82%
Greene County School District1,659$11,30441%42%≈77%
Forest Municipal School District1,654$10,33139%27%≈72%
Senatobia Municipal School District1,651$11,18650%37%≈82%
South Pike School District1,609$11,30126%24%≈87%
Quitman School District1,595$11,57631%28%≈87%
Moss Point School District1,579$17,17620%22%≈82%
Columbia School District1,573$11,99548%42%≈87%
Amory School District1,537$10,62561%49%≈82%
Hazlehurst City School District1,413$11,54326%20%≈77%
Noxubee County School District1,391$12,34313%17%≈82%
Yazoo County School District1,370$13,66333%29%≈82%
West Jasper School District1,319$11,59850%40%≈87%
North Tippah School District1,294$9,88845%43%≈87%
Booneville School District1,279$10,01468%56%≈87%
Jefferson Davis County School District1,279$13,94135%25%≈92%
Humphreys County School District1,257$12,59816%14%≈77%
North Panola School District1,253$11,76537%19%≈82%
Claiborne County School District1,233$12,67629%20%≈77%
Choctaw County School District1,218$15,18852%55%≈72%
Franklin County School District1,193$12,24646%47%≈82%
Winona-Montgomery County Consolidated School District1,176$12,16533%30%—
Nettleton School District1,162$9,54638%39%≈77%
Holly Springs School District1,076$13,37524%22%≈92%
Water Valley School District1,069$9,96632%39%≈82%
Coahoma County School District1,057$14,15923%27%≈72%
Aberdeen School District1,043$13,73433%28%≈82%
Jefferson County School District1,037$14,89814%17%≈87%
Wilkinson County School District1,016$12,46616%16%≈77%
Attala County School District1,002$15,81133%37%≈82%
Perry County Schools953$14,18032%38%≈72%
Enterprise School District933$10,08770%60%≈98%
Union Public School District932$11,10265%50%≈85%
West Bolivar Consolidated School District930$14,79112%17%≈82%
Benton County School District917$12,57644%38%≈87%
Kemper County School District915$18,07425%19%≈92%
East Tallahatchie School District905$12,10920%18%≈87%
Quitman County School District898$15,31638%26%≈87%
Amite County School District886$14,04414%19%≈75%
Carroll County School District851$11,63325%24%≈77%
North Bolivar Consolidated School District843$13,47219%20%≈82%
Newton Municipal School841$13,26243%30%≈87%
Philadelphia Public School District826$13,37430%27%≈77%
East Jasper School District790$14,73547%31%≈92%
Baldwyn School District752$12,75954%41%≈85%
Leland School District673$17,00321%25%≈85%
South Delta School District618$17,17325%21%≈98%
Richton School District571$10,35945%31%≈82%
West Tallahatchie School554$16,12128%20%≈85%
Hollandale School District524$19,59925%20%≈92%
Okolona Separate School District521$14,00837%24%≈75%
Coffeeville School District401$14,97033%26%≈85%

Sources

Spending and enrollment come from the NCES School District Finance Survey (F-33) for fiscal year 2022. Proficiency and graduation rates come from EDFacts for school year 2018-19. Districts are matched to ZIP codes through the NCES EDGE geographic relationship file. Nothing on this page is estimated or modelled: a figure is read from a federal source file or it is left blank.

Questions About Mississippi School Spending

How much does the average Mississippi school district spend per student?
The middle, or median, Mississippi district spent $11,457 per student in fiscal year 2022, $3,086 below the national median of $14,543. The median is the better summary here: a few very small districts spend several times what a large one does, and an average would follow them. That median covers all 147 districts the state reports. Across the 137 a ZIP code can reach, which are the ones listed on this page, 437,967 students account for $4.8 billion of current spending.
Which Mississippi districts spend the most and least per student?
Hollandale School District reports the highest figure in the table at $19,599 per student for 524 students, and DeSoto County School District the lowest at $8,778 for 34,469 students. Enrollment is the denominator, so a small district with one building and one bus route honestly produces a high figure; read the two columns together.
Why are some Mississippi districts missing from this table?
Mississippi has 147 districts with federal finance data and 137 of them appear here. The rest are placed in no ZIP code by the federal boundary file, which is normal for charter and virtual school districts that have no attendance area, so there is no ZIP code a reader could use to find them.
Does this money follow a child who is homeschooled?
No. The figure is what the district spends on a seat in its own schools, funded from local property tax, state formula aid and federal programs. Withdrawing a child removes the child from the count rather than sending the money home. TheHomeschoolingCompany is $1,788 for one student for a school year by comparison, less for each child after the first.

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