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Perry County School District

New Augusta, Mississippi · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

847
Students enrolled
6
Public schools
88
Classroom teachers (FTE)
9.6:1
Students per teacher

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

Students

By grade

  • Kindergarten 80
  • Grade 1 72
  • Grade 2 72
  • Grade 3 66
  • Grade 4 61
  • Grade 5 56
  • Grade 6 59
  • Grade 7 54
  • Grade 8 65
  • Grade 9 67
  • Grade 10 66
  • Grade 11 62
  • Grade 12 67

By race/ethnicity

  • White 59%
  • Black or African American 23%
  • Two or more races 16%
  • Hispanic/Latino 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

82% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 696 of 847 students in the district's schools
  • Free lunch 69%
  • Reduced-price lunch 13%

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

$15,160 spent per student on day-to-day operations Mississippi median: $12,689 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $8,242
  • Support services $6,242
  • Other (food service, etc.) $676

Where the money comes from

  • Local 33%
  • State 45%
  • Federal 22%

Total revenue $15.7 milliontotal spending $14.9 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

KG to 12

Locale (NCES)

Rural: Distant

Total staff (FTE)

180

District office

100 B 8th Ave., New Augusta MS 39462

County

Perry County

Official website

NCES District ID

2803570

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About Perry County School District

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

It is the vision of Perry County Schools to produce citizens who are successful, involved, responsible and informed members of society who enrich the communities in which they live.
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