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Mississippi school safety

City and district rankings from federal incident data · 2021-22 collection

909SCHOOLS

470WITH TRUSTED DATA

22RANKED CITIES

Safest ranked cities in Mississippi

Percentile is against all ranked U.S. cities (higher = safer). Only cities with ≥5 trustworthy-data schools are ranked. Home value is Zillow's ZHVI.

#	CITY	SAFETY PCTL	SCHOOLS	HOME VALUE
1	Hattiesburg	100	5 of 20	$224,680
2	Booneville	90	5 of 7	$150,111
3	Madison	86	6 of 10	$415,933
4	Brookhaven	80	7 of 10	$165,740
5	Picayune	80	7 of 10	$199,128
6	Pascagoula	73	7 of 12	$146,072
7	Clinton	72	7 of 7	$241,920
8	Yazoo City	69	5 of 8	$71,782
9	Greenwood	68	5 of 11	$78,962
10	Meridian	68	18 of 20	$114,437
11	Greenville	65	11 of 15	$58,380
12	Moss Point	58	6 of 8	$150,633
13	Lucedale	54	7 of 8	$218,591
14	Philadelphia	54	5 of 5	$139,167
15	Columbus	51	6 of 15	$177,681
16	Southaven	43	8 of 10	$276,561
17	Jackson	38	39 of 57	$85,739
18	Oxford	37	8 of 10	$423,942
19	Olive Branch	36	8 of 14	$337,376
20	Laurel	18	8 of 12	$149,407
21	Gulfport	9	10 of 22	$205,550
22	Starkville	5	5 of 6	$286,098

Safest ranked districts

#	DISTRICT	SAFETY PCTL	SCHOOLS
1	Lamar County School District	97	9 of 16
2	Prentiss Co School Dist	84	5 of 6
3	Lauderdale Co School Dist	81	9 of 11
4	Greenville Public Schools	77	10 of 13
5	Madison Co School Dist	77	11 of 21
6	Picayune School District	76	6 of 9
7	Hancock Co School Dist	71	6 of 6
8	Pascagoula-Gautier School District	68	11 of 18
9	Clinton Public School Dist	66	7 of 7
10	Hinds Co School Dist	64	8 of 9
11	Sunflower Cty Cons School District	61	12 of 13
12	Meridian Public Schools	51	11 of 11
13	George Co School Dist	49	7 of 8
14	Holmes County Consolidated Sd	49	6 of 9
15	Laurel School District	46	5 of 6
16	Columbus Municipal School Dist	46	6 of 7
17	Marshall Co School Dist	36	8 of 8
18	Gulfport School Dist	34	5 of 9
19	Jackson Public School District	31	33 of 48
20	Oxford School District	27	6 of 6
21	Lee County School District	24	5 of 15
22	Desoto Co School Dist	21	27 of 39
23	Jackson Co School Dist	20	6 of 13
24	South Pike School Dist	19	5 of 6
25	Greenwood-Leflore Cons Sch District	17	5 of 12

Every Mississippi city with schools

Aberdeen Ackerman Amory Anguilla Ashland Avon Baldwyn Bassfield Batesville Bay Springs Bay St Louis Bay St. Louis Beaumont Belden Belmont Belzoni Bentonia Biloxi Blue Mountain Blue Springs Bogue Chitto Bolton Booneville Boyle Brandon Brookhaven Brooklyn Bruce Buckatunna Burnsville Byhalia Caledonia Calhoun City Camden Canton Carriere Carson Carthage Cedar Bluff Centreville Charleston Clarksdale Cleveland Clinton Coffeeville Coldwater Collins Collinsville Columbia Columbus Como Corinth Crystal Springs De Kalb DeKalb Decatur Diberville Drew Duncan Dundee Durant Ecru Ellisville Enterprise Ethel Eupora Falkner Fayette Flora Florence Flowood Forest Foxworth French Camp Friars Point Fulton Gautier Glen Golden Goodman Greenville Greenwood Grenada Gulfport Guntown Hamilton Hattiesburg Hazlehurst Heidelberg Hernando Hickory Flat Hollandale Holly Springs Horn Lake Houlka Houston Indianola Inverness Itta Bena Iuka Jackson Jonestown Kiln Kosciusko Lake Lake Cormorant Lambert Laurel Leakesville Leland Lexington Liberty Long Beach Louisville Lucedale Lumberton Lyon Maben Macon Madison Magee Magnolia Mantachie Marietta Marks Mathiston McLain Mcadams Mccomb Mccool Meadville Mendenhall Meridian Merigold Mize Monticello Mooreville Moorhead Morton Moselle Moss Point Mound Bayou Mount Olive Myrtle Natchez Nettleton New Albany New Augusta New Hebron New Site Newton North Carrollton Noxapater Ocean Springs Okolona Olive Branch Osyka Oxford Pascagoula Pass Christian Pearl Pelahatchie Perkinston Petal Philadelphia Picayune Pinola Plantersville Pontotoc Pope Poplarville Port Gibson Potts Camp Prentiss Puckett Purvis Quitman Raleigh Raymond Redwood Richland Richton Ridgeland Ripley Robinsonville Rolling Fork Rosedale Ruleville Sallis Saltillo Sarah Sardis Saucier Scooba Sebastopol Seminary Senatobia Shannon Shaw Shelby Smithville Southaven Starkville Stringer Sturgis Summit Sumner Sumrall Sunflower Taylorsville Tchula Terry Tishomingo Tremont Tunica Tupelo Tylertown Union Utica Vancleave Vardaman Vaughan Verona Vicksburg Walls Walnut Walnut Grove Water Valley Waveland Waynesboro Webb Weir Wesson West Point Whitfield Wiggins Winona Woodville Yazoo City

Every Mississippi school district