Regular local school district · Lamar County
Lamar County School District, MS: schools, enrollment and spending
Lamar County School District runs 17 public schools with 10,318 students in grades PK to 13. Its ratio of 13.3 students per teacher is 0.8 lower than the Mississippi figure of 14.1.
At a glance
- Schools
- 17
- Students
- 10,318
- Teachers (FTE)
- 778
- Students per teacher
- 13.3
- MS: 14.1 · US: 15.3
- Address
- 424 Martin Luther King Drive, Purvis, MS 39475
- Phone
- (601)794-1430
- County
- Lamar County
- Locale
- Rural: Distant
- Grades offered
- PK to 13
- Agency type
- Regular local school district
- NCES district ID
- 2802400
- State district ID
- MS-3700
- Total staff (FTE)
- 1,480
- School counselors (FTE)
- 29.0About 356 students per counselor.
- School administrators (FTE)
- 34.0
Students per teacher compared
This district13.3
Mississippi14.1
United States15.3
2020 finance data
From the F-33 School District Finance Survey for fiscal year 2020, in nominal dollars. Enrollment used for per-pupil figures is the finance survey count (10,298), which can differ from 2024-25 enrollment.
- Total revenue
- $111.8 million
- Federal revenue
- $16.5 million
- State revenue
- $54.9 million
- Local revenue
- $40.4 million
- Total spending
- $105.3 million
- Spending per pupil
- $10,224
- Salaries
- $59.4 million56.5% of total spending.
- Long-term debt (end of year)
- $27.4 million
Where revenue came from
- Federal: 14.8%
- State: 49.1%
- Local: 36.1%
Mississippi overall
- Federal: 19.3%
- State: 46.0%
- Local: 34.7%
Spending per pupil compared
This district$10,224
Mississippi$12,016
United States$16,826
Schools in Lamar County School District
By level: 5 high, 3 middle, 8 elementary, 1 other. A CEP school serves free meals to all students.
| Baxterville School | Elementary | PK to 8 | 217 | 9.4 |
| Bellevue Elementary | Elementary | PK to 5 | 1,145 | 14.0 |
| Jefferson/Todd Alternative Program | Other | 5 to 12 | 0 | |
| Lamar Co Voc Tech Center | High | 9 to 12 | 0 | |
| Longleaf Elementary | Elementary | PK to 5 | 787 | 14.6 |
| Lumberton Elementary School | Elementary | PK to 6 | 287 | 11.5 |
| Lumberton High School | High | 7 to 12 | 268 | 8.4 |
| Oak Grove Elementary | Elementary | PK to 5 | 758 | 13.1 |
| Oak Grove High School | High | 9 to 13 | 1,750 | 14.3 |
| Oak Grove Middle School | Middle | 6 to 8 | 1,160 | 13.0 |
| Purvis High School | High | 9 to 13 | 614 | 12.8 |
| Purvis Lower Elementary | Elementary | PK to 2 | 448 | 15.4 |
| Purvis Middle School | Middle | 6 to 8 | 447 | 14.9 |
| Purvis Upper Elementary | Elementary | 3 to 5 | 377 | 13.5 |
| Sumrall Elementary School | Elementary | PK to 5 | 960 | 15.2 |
| Sumrall High School | High | 9 to 13 | 616 | 13.1 |
| Sumrall Middle School | Middle | 6 to 8 | 484 | 14.2 |
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Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Finance figures are 2020 finance data in nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.