NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools MS

Best-Resourced Schools in Pontotoc, MS

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

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8
Schools
4,010
Students
36.8/100
Avg Resource Index
13.2:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Pontotoc has more public-school enrollment than 44% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Pontotoc sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Pontotoc's list includes 3 elementary, 2 middle, and 2 high-school campuses, plus 1 combined-grade record. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Pontotoc's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 32nd percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 77th percentile. The 45-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 56%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
32nd percentile
Teacher staffing
77th percentile

South Pontotoc Elementary School accounts for 19.4% of all Pontotoc public-school enrollment

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

Pontotoc school enrollment varies 2.5× across entities

Pontotoc school enrollment ranges from 316 students (lowest) to 776 students (highest), a spread of 460 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

Pontotoc reports 66.8% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. 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

Pontotoc student-teacher ratio is 13.2:1 — 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. D T Cox Elementary School 51
2. Pontotoc Middle School 50
3. South Pontotoc Middle School 46
4. Pontotoc Elementary School 44
5. South Pontotoc Elementary School 30
6. Pontotoc Junior High School 28
7. Pontotoc High School 25
8. South Pontotoc High School 20

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Pontotoc

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 Pontotoc Junior High School 66.9/100
  2. 2 Pontotoc Elementary School 66.7/100
  3. 3 D T Cox Elementary School 65.5/100
  4. 4 Pontotoc Middle School 65.3/100
  5. 5 Pontotoc High School 65.0/100

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Which Pontotoc school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

D T Cox Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Pontotoc schools in this federal-data comparison at 51/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Pontotoc, MS? ▼

Pontotoc has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,010 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.2:1.

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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.