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Ocean Springs, Mississippi - 6 schools
An equity score of 19/100 ranks Ocean Springs School Dist #142 of 146 districts in Mississippi (state average 51). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $9,612 per pupil, Ocean Springs School Dist ranks #135 of 147 Mississippi districts by per-pupil spending (Mississippi districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
5,861
Total Enrollment
6
Schools
$9,612
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Ocean Springs School Dist operates 6 public schools serving 5,861 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Mississippi. The school portfolio breaks down into 4 elementary, 1 high, 1 middle 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 Jackson County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $9,612 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the bottom 15 of 147 Mississippi districts by per-pupil spending. See how Mississippi compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 34.0% local, 49.9% state, and 16.1% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 19/100, ranked #142 of 146 in Mississippi against a state average of 51, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 6 schools offering Advanced Placement (23 AP courses district-wide), a 460.8:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 26.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 68.9% White, 12.3% African American, 9.0% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Pecan Park Elementary School, with a diversity index of 57.0/100.
Its largest campus is Ocean Springs High School, enrolling 1,928 students (34% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Oak Park Elementary School, at 467 students, a 4x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Ocean Springs High School accounts for 32.9% of all Ocean Springs School Dist student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Ocean Springs School Dist-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.
Ocean Springs School Dist school enrollment varies 4.1× across entities
Ocean Springs School Dist school enrollment ranges from 467 students (lowest) to 1,928 students (highest), a spread of 1,461 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Ocean Springs School Dist student-counselor ratio is 461:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Ocean Springs School Dist chronic absenteeism rate is 26.5% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Variation between sub-units within Ocean Springs School Dist is typically wider than the Ocean Springs School Dist-aggregate figure suggests.