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Leake County School District

Carthage, Mississippi · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

2,408
Students enrolled
6
Public schools
173
Classroom teachers (FTE)
13.9:1
Students per teacher

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

Students

By grade

  • Pre-K 17
  • Kindergarten 188
  • Grade 1 199
  • Grade 2 195
  • Grade 3 203
  • Grade 4 161
  • Grade 5 167
  • Grade 6 162
  • Grade 7 174
  • Grade 8 160
  • Grade 9 169
  • Grade 10 208
  • Grade 11 204
  • Grade 12 175
  • Grade 13 26

By race/ethnicity

  • Black or African American 60%
  • Hispanic/Latino 21%
  • White 16%
  • Two or more races 3%
  • American Indian or Alaska Native <1%
  • Asian <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

100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 2,407 of 2,408 students in the district's schools
  • Free lunch 100%
  • Reduced-price lunch 0%

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

$12,106 spent per student on day-to-day operations Mississippi median: $12,689 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $6,328
  • Support services $4,908
  • Other (food service, etc.) $870

Where the money comes from

  • Local 17%
  • State 47%
  • Federal 36%

Total revenue $37.6 milliontotal spending $37.4 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: Remote

Total staff (FTE)

386

District office

111 West Main Street, Carthage MS 39051

County

Leake County

Official website

NCES District ID

2802520

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About Leake County School District

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

The mission of the Leake County School District is to provide a high quality education that will increase the learning of all students. The Leake County School District vision will be to graduate critical thinkers with the skills and knowledge to succeed in life.
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