HANCOCK CO SCHOOL DIST

What the Numbers Say About HANCOCK CO SCHOOL DIST

HANCOCK CO SCHOOL DIST is a small-to-mid-sized school district in Mississippi, serving 4,134 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $12,618. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $61,832, placing the district in the lower-spending tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 2801740 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Mississippi statewide average of $62,177, teacher pay in HANCOCK CO SCHOOL DIST runs slightly below the state benchmark — a 0.6% gap, and below the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (24.9% differential). Among enrolling districts in Mississippi, it pays more than 43% of them. Licensing reciprocity, collective bargaining strength, and state aid formulas all contribute to where a district lands in these tiers.

On the budget side, HANCOCK CO SCHOOL DIST reports $52.2M in total expenditure against $53.8M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 33% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $10.7M, special-education teacher pay is $2.2M. These figures are district-level aggregates from F-33, not individual contracts — step-and-column schedules, stipends, and collectively-bargained differentials sit underneath these totals.