NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools MS

Best-Resourced Schools in Hernando, MS

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6 public K-12 schools in Hernando from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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6
Schools
5,929
Students
28.7/100
Avg Resource Index
16.9:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Hernando has more public-school enrollment than 63% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Hernando's 6 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

3 of Hernando's 6 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 2 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 12-point gap between Hernando Hills Elementary and Hernando High School shows the range hidden by Hernando's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 37%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
10th percentile
Teacher staffing
34th percentile

Hernando High School accounts for 25.8% of all Hernando public-school enrollment

That concentration means Hernando-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Hernando school enrollment varies 2.2× across entities

Hernando school enrollment ranges from 707 students (lowest) to 1,529 students (highest), a spread of 822 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Hernando operates one school district — a single-district system

Hernando's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Hernando student-teacher ratio is 16.9:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Hernando is typically wider than the Hernando-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Hernando Hills Elementary 36
2. Oak Grove Central Elementary 32
3. Hernando Middle School 29
4. Hernando Elem 26
5. Lewisburg Middle 25
6. Hernando High School 24

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Hernando

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Hernando High School 43.3/100
  2. 2 Hernando Middle School 43.3/100
  3. 3 Hernando Hills Elementary 43.0/100
  4. 4 Hernando Elem 42.3/100
  5. 5 Oak Grove Central Elementary 41.4/100

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Which Hernando school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Hernando Hills Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Hernando schools in this federal-data comparison at 36/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Hernando, MS? ▼

Hernando has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,929 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 16.9:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.