Pontotoc County School District 鈥� MS: Schools & Enrollment

Key statistics

3,465

Students enrolled

9

Public schools

256

Classroom teachers (FTE)

13.5:1

Students per teacher

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

Students

By grade

Kindergarten 261
Grade 1 290
Grade 2 300
Grade 3 289
Grade 4 259
Grade 5 294
Grade 6 268
Grade 7 307
Grade 8 250
Grade 9 265
Grade 10 248
Grade 11 230
Grade 12 198
Grade 13 2
Ungraded 4

By race/ethnicity

White 73%
Hispanic/Latino 14%
Black or African American 9%
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

99% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 3,444 of 3,465 students in the district's schools

Free lunch 99%
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

$10,288 spent per student on day-to-day operations Mississippi median: $12,689 per student

Spending per student

Instruction $6,576
Support services $3,153
Other (food service, etc.) $559

Where the money comes from

Local 19%
State 61%
Federal 20%

Total revenue $42.6 milliontotal spending $41.9 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 13

Locale (NCES)

Rural: Distant

Total staff (FTE)

478

District office

354 Center Ridge Drive, Pontotoc MS 38863

Phone

(662) 489-3932

County

Pontotoc County

Official website

NCES District ID

2803660

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About PONTOTOC COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT

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

Employing approximately 450 people, our district is one of the largest employers in Pontotoc County. Of this number, 267 are certified teachers, counselors and administrators with 50 of these teachers being National Board Certified. The district's teachers work hard to reach academic goals, train educators on best practices, and provide the students with the best educational opportunities available to fit their individual needs. School safety is the top priority of our district. Our students, parents, teachers and communities are committed to working together to maintain high standards of behavior on each campus; therefore, this district has a low number of discipline problems. We believe the students should be rewarded for this remarkable behavior. South Pontotoc was a recent recipient of the Reach Mississippi Positive Behavior grant. This grant is designed to provide funding for programs that will increase and reward positive behavior in every aspect of the school environment as well as decrease the absentee and the dropout rates. We hope to expand this program to North Pontotoc in the near future.

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