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Starkville, Mississippi - 7 schools
An equity score of 39/100 ranks Starkville- Oktibbeha Cons Dist #100 of 146 districts in Mississippi (state average 51). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $11,905 per pupil, Starkville- Oktibbeha Cons Dist ranks #60 of 147 Mississippi districts by per-pupil spending (Mississippi districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
4,894
Total Enrollment
7
Schools
$11,905
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Starkville- Oktibbeha Cons Dist operates 7 public schools serving 4,894 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Mississippi. The school portfolio breaks down into 3 combined, 2 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 Oktibbeha County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $11,905 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 147 Mississippi districts by per-pupil spending. See how Mississippi compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 43.0% local, 35.9% state, and 21.1% 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 39/100, ranked #100 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 2 of 7 schools offering Advanced Placement (7 AP courses district-wide), a 348.1:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 31.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 62.3% African American, 32.0% White, 3.3% Asian across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Overstreet Elementary, with a diversity index of 54.2/100.
Its largest campus is Starkville High School, enrolling 1,376 students (28% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is West Elementary School, at 190 students, a 7x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Starkville High School accounts for 28.1% of all Starkville- Oktibbeha Cons Dist student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Starkville- Oktibbeha Cons 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.
Starkville- Oktibbeha Cons Dist school enrollment varies 7.2× across entities
Starkville- Oktibbeha Cons Dist school enrollment ranges from 190 students (lowest) to 1,376 students (highest), a spread of 1,186 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.
Starkville- Oktibbeha Cons Dist has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 69.3% 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). Eligibility here is approaching the 75% concentration-grant threshold; it does not yet unlock the extra funding tier but sits meaningfully above the baseline 50% majority mark. 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.
Starkville- Oktibbeha Cons Dist student-counselor ratio is 348:1 — near the typical range (US average ~408) — within the typical range for U.S. public districts
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 Variation between sub-units within Starkville- Oktibbeha Cons Dist is typically wider than the Starkville- Oktibbeha Cons Dist-aggregate figure suggests.
Starkville- Oktibbeha Cons Dist chronic absenteeism rate is 31.1% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Comparisons are relative to Starkville- Oktibbeha Cons Dist's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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