Houlka Attendance Center

Located at 510 GRIFFIN AVE., in HOULKA, Mississippi, Houlka Attendance Center is an average-sized all-grades campus that serves 457 students (grades pre-K through 12), one of the schools within Chickasaw County School District.

Houlka Attendance Center is one of 5 schools operated by Chickasaw County School District, a district that hosts 2,197 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Houlka Attendance Center shows that the most-represented group is White (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 42% Black, 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Chickasaw County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.8:1, putting Houlka Attendance Center tighter than the state norm the norm. About 73% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Houlka Attendance Center sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 59.9%; this one delivers 55.8%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Chickasaw County shows the typical household earns roughly $43,586 per year, roughly 12% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 19%. Across Chickasaw County's 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,709 students), Houlka Attendance Center is one campus in the mix.

Houston Upper Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 9.4 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 2 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Houlka Attendance Center comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 64.7%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

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