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Brookhaven School District

Brookhaven, Mississippi · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

2,432
Students enrolled
7
Public schools
202
Classroom teachers (FTE)
12.0:1
Students per teacher

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.

Students

By grade

  • Pre-K 76
  • Kindergarten 187
  • Grade 1 173
  • Grade 2 186
  • Grade 3 160
  • Grade 4 208
  • Grade 5 171
  • Grade 6 170
  • Grade 7 176
  • Grade 8 164
  • Grade 9 182
  • Grade 10 212
  • Grade 11 203
  • Grade 12 160
  • Grade 13 1

By race/ethnicity

  • Black or African American 65%
  • White 27%
  • Two or more races 5%
  • Hispanic/Latino 2%
  • Asian <1%
  • American Indian or Alaska Native <1%
  • Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander <1%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.

Free and reduced-price lunch

78% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 1,896 of 2,432 students in the district's schools
  • Free lunch 68%
  • Reduced-price lunch 10%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, school year 2024-25. Eligibility as reported by the state. Schools that serve free meals to every student may count all of them as eligible, so figures are not comparable from state to state.

Spending and revenue

$12,440 spent per student on day-to-day operations Mississippi median: $12,689 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $6,709
  • Support services $4,932
  • Other (food service, etc.) $799

Where the money comes from

  • Local 34%
  • State 45%
  • Federal 20%

Total revenue $36.5 milliontotal spending $33.2 million

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year.

District details

Grades served

PK to 13

Locale (NCES)

Town: Remote

Total staff (FTE)

457

District office

326 E COURT STREET, Brookhaven MS 39601

County

Lincoln County

Official website

NCES District ID

2800840

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About Brookhaven School District

Description provided by the district or community — not part of the NCES dataset.

The Brookhaven School District strives year after year to complete a child’s education with the highest of standards. An education that begins with excellent facilities throughout its five-school system. Many renovations at all of the schools have taken place over the years, including a $13 million renovation and expansion project at Brookhaven High School in 2001. The high school, originally built in 1938, is recognized by the Mississippi Department of Archives as true to its Art Deco design and now has what is considered to be the most advanced sound and lighting system of any high school in Mississippi.
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