Mississippi · NCES F-33 finance data

Highest Spending Districts in Mississippi

The 50 Mississippi districts that spend the most per student, ranked from NCES F-33 finance data (2021-22). Only districts enrolling 500 or more students are included.

Compiled from official source data by .
$19,599
Top per-pupil spend
$13,900
Avg across top 50
50
Districts listed

The spending picture in one line

Hollandale School Dist spends $19,599 per student, the most of any Mississippi district listed, against an average of $13,900 across the top 50.

$19,599
top spend (Hollandale School Dist)
$12,109
lowest on this list
1.6×
spread across the listed districts
548
students in the top district
# District Per-Pupil $
1 Hollandale School Dist Hollandale $19,599
2 Kemper Co School Dist Dekalb $18,074
3 Moss Point Separate School Dist Moss Point $17,176
4 South Delta School District Rolling Fork $17,173
5 Leland School Dist Leland $17,003
6 West Tallahatchie School District Sumner $16,121
7 Attala Co School Dist Kosciusko $15,811
8 Tunica County School District Tunica $15,350
9 Quitman Co School Dist Marks $15,316
10 Choctaw Co School Dist Ackerman $15,188
11 Jefferson Co School Dist Fayette $14,898
12 West Bolivar Cons School Dist Rosedale $14,791
13 East Jasper Consolidated Sch Dist Heidelberg $14,735
14 Natchez-Adams School District Natchez $14,698
15 Pascagoula-Gautier School District Pascagoula $14,596
16 Bay St Louis Waveland School Dist Bay St. Louis $14,358
17 Perry Co School Dist New Augusta $14,180
18 Coahoma County School District Clarksdale $14,159
19 Amite County School District Liberty $14,044
20 Okolona Separate School Dist Okolona $14,008
21 Jefferson Davis Co School Dist Prentiss $13,941
22 Aberdeen School Dist Aberdeen $13,734
23 Yazoo Co School Dist Yazoo City $13,663
24 North Bolivar Cons School Dist Mound Bayou $13,472
25 Holly Springs School Dist Holly Springs $13,375
26 Philadelphia Public School Dist Philadelphia $13,374
27 Forrest County School District Hattiesburg $13,333
28 Newton Municipal School District Newton $13,262
29 Holmes County Consolidated Sd Lexington $13,241
30 Mccomb School District Mccomb $13,191
31 Hattiesburg Public School Dist Hattiesburg $13,121
32 Sunflower Cty Cons School District Indianola $13,004
33 Western Line School District Avon $12,784
34 Baldwyn School District Baldwyn $12,759
35 Claiborne Co School Dist Port Gibson $12,676
36 Meridian Public Schools Meridian $12,633
37 Humphreys Co School Dist Belzoni $12,598
38 Pass Christian Public School Dist Pass Christian $12,585
39 Benton Co School Dist Ashland $12,576
40 Wilkinson Co School Dist Woodville $12,466
41 Noxubee County School District Macon $12,343
42 Marion Co School Dist Columbia $12,259
43 Franklin Co School Dist Meadville $12,246
44 Columbus Municipal School Dist Columbus $12,239
45 Clarksdale Municipal School Dist Clarksdale $12,180
46 Winona-Montgomery Consolidated Winona $12,165
47 Jackson Public School District Jackson $12,155
48 Biloxi Public School Dist Biloxi $12,135
49 Vicksburg Warren School Dist Vicksburg $12,112
50 East Tallahatchie Consol Sch Dist Charleston $12,109

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Methodology

Per-pupil expenditure data comes from the NCES F-33 Finance Survey. Only districts with 500 or more students are included to ensure meaningful comparisons. Spending figures include all current operational expenditures divided by total enrollment.

Per-pupil spending figures come from the National Center for Education Statistics F-33 School District Finance Survey for fiscal year 2021-22, the federal government's annual census of revenues and expenditures across more than 13,000 public school districts. Only districts enrolling 500 or more students are ranked, to keep small-district outliers from distorting the comparison.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.