Mdhs Division of Youth Services operates 1 public schools serving 28 students, placing it among the smaller districts in Mississippi. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 other schools, giving families a clear picture of grade-band coverage before they move, rent, or enrol. Aggregated across those campuses, enrollment totals 17 pupils using the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is geographically located in Hinds County County.
a 17:1 student-counselor ratio that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, . Demographically, the student body averages 76.5% African American across the district's schools.
Williams School accounts for 100.0% of all Mdhs Division of Youth Services student enrollment
That concentration — well above the 8.4% national median for largest-entity share — means Mdhs Division of Youth Services-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: other. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Mdhs Division of Youth Services has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 89.3% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Areas above 75% eligibility — including this one — receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Mdhs Division of Youth Services student-counselor ratio is 17:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment — districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.