An equity score of 38/100 ranks Starkville- Oktibbeha Cons Dist #105 of 146 districts in Mississippi (state average 51). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $13,106 per pupil, Starkville- Oktibbeha Cons Dist ranks #61 of 148 Mississippi districts by per-pupil spending (Mississippi districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
4,894
Total Enrollment
7
Schools
$13,106
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 $13,106 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 148 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 38/100, ranked #105 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 largest entity. Grade band: high. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.
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.
The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. 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.
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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