Lamar County School District
Key statistics
Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.
Students
By grade
- Pre-K 339
- Kindergarten 766
- Grade 1 811
- Grade 2 762
- Grade 3 733
- Grade 4 745
- Grade 5 741
- Grade 6 715
- Grade 7 796
- Grade 8 748
- Grade 9 828
- Grade 10 791
- Grade 11 839
- Grade 12 694
- Grade 13 9
- Ungraded 1
By race/ethnicity
- White 57%
- Black or African American 30%
- Hispanic/Latino 7%
- Two or more races 5%
- Asian 2%
- Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander <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
- Free lunch 44%
- Reduced-price lunch 11%
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
Spending per student
- Instruction $6,822
- Support services $3,468
- Other (food service, etc.) $548
Where the money comes from
- Local 36%
- State 49%
- Federal 15%
Total revenue $138.1 milliontotal spending $123.9 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)
Rural: DistantStudents: 57% rural, 43% suburb
Total staff (FTE)
1,481
District office
424 Martin Luther King Drive, Purvis MS 39475
Phone
County
Lamar County
Official website
NCES District ID
2802400
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About Lamar County School District
Description provided by the district or community — not part of the NCES dataset.