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Brookhaven, Mississippi - 1 schools
At $33,364 per pupil, Ms School for the Arts ranks #1 of 147 Mississippi districts by per-pupil spending (Mississippi districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
86
Total Enrollment
1
Schools
$33,364
Per-Pupil Spending
High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Ms School for the Arts operates 1 public schools serving 86 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Mississippi. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 high 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 Lincoln County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $33,364 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 15 of 147 Mississippi districts by per-pupil spending. See how Mississippi compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 1 schools offering Advanced Placement (2 AP courses district-wide), a 104:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, . Demographically, the student body averages 54.8% White, 31.7% African American, 2.9% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Ms School for the Arts, enrolling 104 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Ms School for the Arts accounts for 100.0% of all Ms School for the Arts student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Ms School for the Arts a distant remainder — means Ms School for the Arts-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. 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.
Ms School for the Arts student-counselor ratio is 104:1 — 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.
Ms School for the Arts has 1 school, including 1 high. Total enrollment is 86 students.
How much does Ms School for the Arts spend per student?
Ms School for the Arts spends $33,364 per student.
What is the demographic composition of Ms School for the Arts?
Ms School for the Arts students are 54.8% White, 31.7% African American, 2.9% Hispanic or Latino, 1.0% Asian, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.