District overview
Hinds County School District
Funding structure, how it compares to peers, and where major projects stand.
How the district is funded and governed
The Board governs budgets, policies, contracts, calendars and facilities. The official portal lists five current members by District 1-5, while the reviewed records do not establish the next contest date.
FY2025 finances
The audit reports $59.34 million in General Fund revenue, $53.67 million in expenditures and a $57.84 million ending General Fund balance.
Funding sources
The FY2025 audit reports General Fund revenue of $59.34 million: $26.21 million local, $31.42 million state, $211,064 federal and $1.50 million from sixteenth-section sources. Across all governmental funds, the broader totals were $31.22 million local, $32.12 million state, $9.33 million federal and $1.54 million from sixteenth-section sources; these scopes are kept separate.
Audit controls
The FY2025 audit gives unmodified financial and federal-program opinions but reports a repeat federal material weakness/material noncompliance and five state-law findings.
Student devices and AI
The current handbook requires devices off and stored on campus with escalating 15/30-day retention and fees, and treats inappropriate AI use as academic dishonesty.
Meeting evidence
The official portal contains agenda bodies through March 2026 but no minutes or recordings, so reports describe proposals rather than outcomes.
Observed calendar
Regular meetings appeared on the second Thursday from July through December 2025 and February 2026, with documented moves to January 15 and March 19. No official future dates were posted, so the enabled calendar uses this observed pattern and discloses its limits.
The available official records are useful for proposals, current family rules and audited finances, but missing minutes/recordings and the post-March 2026 archive materially limit outcome coverage.
Where the district stands
Revenue for the year ended June 30, 2025.
Ending fund balance, not current-year revenue.
Reported at June 30, 2025.
Major projects
Hinds Early College planning
Proposed in February 2026 agenda; outcome not locatedThe February 12 agenda proposed an early-college memorandum and a principal/director position for a Fall 2026 start. No minutes or recording was located, so approval and current implementation remain unverified.
- Public agenda proposed the memorandum and Fall 2026 leadership position.
Funding
Unknown in the reviewed agenda; a separate proposed $60,000 IDEA-funded position was listed but is not attributed to the early-college initiative.
Reviewed and hash-reconciled all 19 stored official sources: 15 full agenda bodies, the complete current bilingual handbook, the FY2025 audit, the FY2024 compliance report and the Board roster/archive page. Proposal and outcome language were kept distinct.
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