Forest Municipal School District 鈥� Scott County, MS

Key statistics

1,638

Students enrolled

3

Public schools

106

Classroom teachers (FTE)

15.5:1

Students per teacher

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

Students

By grade

Pre-K 6
Kindergarten 157
Grade 1 151
Grade 2 143
Grade 3 126
Grade 4 157
Grade 5 128
Grade 6 98
Grade 7 109
Grade 8 125
Grade 9 111
Grade 10 119
Grade 11 111
Grade 12 97

By race/ethnicity

Hispanic/Latino 51%
Black or African American 39%
White 7%
Two or more races 3%
Asian <1%
American Indian or Alaska Native <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

85% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 1,391 of 1,638 students in the district's schools

Free lunch 79%
Reduced-price lunch 5%

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

$12,600 spent per student on day-to-day operations Mississippi median: $12,689 per student

Spending per student

Instruction $6,428
Support services $5,317
Other (food service, etc.) $855

Where the money comes from

Local 35%
State 42%
Federal 23%

Total revenue $23.4 milliontotal spending $23.6 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 12

Locale (NCES)

Rural: Remote

Total staff (FTE)

240

District office

325 CLEVELAND STREET, Forest MS 39074

Phone

(601) 469-3101

County

Scott County

Official website

NCES District ID

2801470

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About Forest Municipal School District

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

The Forest Municipal School District is located in the town of Forest, MS in Scott county. Forest is located on I-20 between Jackson and Meridian. Jackson is 48 miles to the west and Meridian is 40 miles to the east. Forest covers 610 square miles in Scott county. The population of Forest was 5,987 in 2000. The mean temperature is 64.7 degrees with the winter average being 48 degrees and the summer average being 81 degrees. The annual rainfall is 52 inches. Forest industries are poultry, lumber, electronic defense components, and automobile supplies.

Public Schools in Forest Municipal School District (3)

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