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Smith County School District

Raleigh, Mississippi · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

2,538
Students enrolled
6
Public schools
185
Classroom teachers (FTE)
13.7:1
Students per teacher

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

Students

By grade

  • Pre-K 91
  • Kindergarten 204
  • Grade 1 199
  • Grade 2 182
  • Grade 3 195
  • Grade 4 174
  • Grade 5 191
  • Grade 6 163
  • Grade 7 192
  • Grade 8 212
  • Grade 9 192
  • Grade 10 195
  • Grade 11 176
  • Grade 12 172

By race/ethnicity

  • White 68%
  • Black or African American 28%
  • Hispanic/Latino 2%
  • Two or more races 2%
  • 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

72% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 1,828 of 2,538 students in the district's schools
  • Free lunch 59%
  • 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

$10,175 spent per student on day-to-day operations Mississippi median: $12,689 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $5,908
  • Support services $3,487
  • Other (food service, etc.) $779

Where the money comes from

  • Local 27%
  • State 51%
  • Federal 23%

Total revenue $32.4 milliontotal spending $31.7 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)

350

District office

212 SYLVARENA AVENUE SUITE C, Raleigh MS 39153

County

Smith County

Official website

NCES District ID

2804020

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About Smith County School District

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

Our purpose, our mission in the Smith County School District is to provide learning opportunities that will challenge and encourage our students to succeed, and enable them to become productive and well adjusted citizens in an ever-changing society. Recognizing that all students have worth, dignity, and individual needs and talents, we continually strive to adapt the Smith County School District’s education program to encompass a diverse student population.
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