Water Valley School District 鈥� Yalobusha County, MS

Key statistics

997

Students enrolled

2

Public schools

74

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

Pre-K 20
Kindergarten 85
Grade 1 89
Grade 2 81
Grade 3 100
Grade 4 90
Grade 5 57
Grade 6 77
Grade 7 71
Grade 8 75
Grade 9 60
Grade 10 65
Grade 11 64
Grade 12 63

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

74% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 733 of 997 students in the district's schools

Free lunch 62%
Reduced-price lunch 11%

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

$10,798 spent per student on day-to-day operations Mississippi median: $12,689 per student

Spending per student

Instruction $6,598
Support services $3,674
Other (food service, etc.) $526

Where the money comes from

Local 22%
State 55%
Federal 23%

Total revenue $13.7 milliontotal spending $11.7 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: Distant

Total staff (FTE)

162

District office

544 Market Street, Water Valley MS 38965

Phone

(662) 473-2277

County

Yalobusha County

Official website

NCES District ID

2804500

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About Water Valley School District

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

Our schools are committed to providing a quality education by offering instructional programs that meet the needs of all of our students in an environment that is conducive to academic excellence and personal growth. During the last few years, we have made significant changes in our educational programs to comply with the No Child Left Behind Act. However, these changes have not been for that purpose alone. We constantly review our instructional and support programs because we believe that every child deserves an opportunity to learn and to excel in life. For us, No Child Left Behind is not a mandate; it is our goal.