Mdhs Division of Youth Services operates 1 public schools serving 28 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Mississippi. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Hinds 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.
Its largest campus is Williams School, enrolling 17 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Williams School accounts for 60.7% of all Mdhs Division of Youth Services student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Mdhs Division of Youth Services a distant remainder — means Mdhs Division of Youth Services-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Mdhs Division of Youth Services reports 89.3% 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.
Mdhs Division of Youth Services student-counselor ratio is 17:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Comparisons are relative to Mdhs Division of Youth Services's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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