District overview
Canton Public School District
Funding structure, how it compares to peers, and where major projects stand.
What Canton's current public records show
Current records show Board actions, audited finances, budget projections, attendance and dropout plans, and school-specific student rules.
FY2025 General Fund revenue exceeded expenditures
The audit reports $41.70 million in General Fund revenue and $33.47 million in expenditures, with a $33.26 million ending fund balance.
FY2027 budget projects a General Fund increase
The budget projects $63.55 million in revenue, $48.20 million in expenditures and $11.75 million in net other financing uses, yielding a projected $3.61 million fund-balance increase.
Auditors reported no findings
The September 24 audit gives unmodified opinions and reports no financial-statement, federal or tested state-law findings, but the district was not classified as a low-risk auditee.
Attendance and dropout documents set goals and intervention steps
The July 29 plans call for early family contact and supports, and set future improvement targets that are not reported outcomes.
Student device rules vary by school section
The current handbook permits nonvisible devices in some sections, prohibits middle-school use and possession during the day, and bars devices at the alternative school.
The minutes archive documents adopted actions through May 2026, but current agenda proposals are unavailable because the public portal denied anonymous content access.
Where the district stands
Major projects
Canton Rosenwald School/Cameron construction in progress
construction in progress at the FY2025 fiscal year endAudit Note 5 reports $240,946 of construction-in-progress costs incurred and an $84,670 remaining commitment at June 30, 2025. Those amounts are not presented as the complete project budget.
- The FY2025 audit reports construction in progress and the remaining commitment at fiscal year end.
Funding
Construction FY22 Fund; the audit does not state a complete project budget.
Recent news
This page uses official Board minutes and schedules, current district plans and handbook, district finance publications, and the Mississippi Office of the State Auditor archive. Every collected original was reviewed; image-only plans and handbook pages were checked visually alongside OCR.
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