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West Tallahatchie School District

Sumner, Mississippi · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

548
Students enrolled
3
Public schools
34
Classroom teachers (FTE)
16.1:1
Students per teacher

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

Students

By grade

  • Kindergarten 42
  • Grade 1 39
  • Grade 2 31
  • Grade 3 43
  • Grade 4 37
  • Grade 5 35
  • Grade 6 24
  • Grade 7 47
  • Grade 8 50
  • Grade 9 43
  • Grade 10 50
  • Grade 11 58
  • Grade 12 49

By race/ethnicity

  • Black or African American 94%
  • Two or more races 5%
  • White <1%
  • Hispanic/Latino <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 542 of 548 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

$18,241 spent per student on day-to-day operations Mississippi median: $12,689 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $7,950
  • Support services $8,961
  • Other (food service, etc.) $1,331

Where the money comes from

  • Local 34%
  • State 41%
  • Federal 26%

Total revenue $11.1 milliontotal spending $10.3 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: Remote

Total staff (FTE)

96

District office

6470 Friendship West Road, Sumner MS 38957

County

Tallahatchie County

Official website

NCES District ID

2804650

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About West Tallahatchie School District

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

The mission of the administrators, faculty, staff, and parents of the West Tallahatchie School District is to educate students to become productive citizens actively contributing in an ever changing technological society. We, the schools and communities are empowered to assure our staff provides instructional services to help our children attain proficiency in all studies. We value our students’ families, businesses and communities as wonderful and helpful partners. Together, we are determined our children will soar!
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