NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools MS

Best-Resourced Schools in Louisville, MS

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

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5
Schools
1,940
Students
36.8/100
Avg Resource Index
12.2:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Louisville has more public-school enrollment than 11% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Louisville's 5 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.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

2 of Louisville's 5 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Louisville's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 32nd percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 87th percentile. The 55-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.

City enrollment
Top 89%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
32nd percentile
Teacher staffing
87th percentile

Nanih Waiya Attendance Center accounts for 26.6% of all Louisville public-school enrollment

That concentration means Louisville-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Combined. 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

Louisville reports 100.0% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share is above 87.5%, so economic need is widespread across the measured student population. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Louisville operates one school district — a single-district system

Louisville'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

Louisville student-teacher ratio is 12.2:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Louisville Elementary School 56
2. Fair Elementary School 40
3. Eiland Middle School 40
4. Nanih Waiya Attendance Center 28
5. Louisville High School 20

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Louisville

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 Nanih Waiya Attendance Center 45.1/100
  2. 2 Eiland Middle School 29.9/100
  3. 3 Fair Elementary School 23.4/100
  4. 4 Louisville Elementary School 23.4/100
  5. 5 Louisville High School 22.9/100

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Which Louisville school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Louisville Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Louisville schools in this federal-data comparison at 56/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Louisville, MS? ▼

Louisville has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 1,940 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.2:1.

Other Cities in Mississippi

Jackson
58 schools
Gulfport
23 schools
Hattiesburg
18 schools
Meridian
18 schools
Olive Branch
14 schools
Biloxi
13 schools

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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.