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NEWTON MUNICIPAL SCHOOL DISTRICT

Newton, Mississippi · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

782
Students enrolled
4
Public schools
64
Classroom teachers (FTE)
12.3:1
Students per teacher

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

Students

By grade

  • Pre-K 39
  • Kindergarten 47
  • Grade 1 58
  • Grade 2 47
  • Grade 3 63
  • Grade 4 47
  • Grade 5 66
  • Grade 6 50
  • Grade 7 78
  • Grade 8 50
  • Grade 9 56
  • Grade 10 61
  • Grade 11 68
  • Grade 12 52

By race/ethnicity

  • Black or African American 84%
  • Two or more races 11%
  • White 4%
  • Asian <1%
  • Hispanic/Latino <1%
  • 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

80% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 625 of 782 students in the district's schools
  • Free lunch 72%
  • Reduced-price lunch 8%

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

$14,087 spent per student on day-to-day operations Mississippi median: $12,689 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $7,612
  • Support services $5,627
  • Other (food service, etc.) $848

Where the money comes from

  • Local 28%
  • State 43%
  • Federal 30%

Total revenue $14.6 milliontotal spending $13.9 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 12

Locale (NCES)

Rural: Remote

Total staff (FTE)

149

District office

205 School Street, Newton MS 39345

County

Newton County

Official website

NCES District ID

2803180

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About NEWTON MUNICIPAL SCHOOL DISTRICT

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

To create socially, economically, and technologically productive world citizens by teaching them to think, reason, and use a variety of techniques to adapt to the challenges of society.
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