PASCAGOULA OPPORTUNITY CENTER

• ED has no 2022-23 chronic absence count for this school.
• ED’s own figures for 2022-23: 24.7% for its district and 26.5% for Mississippi.
• ED publishes no 2022-23 four-year graduation rate for this school.

• A public alternative school for grades 1 to 12.
• Open in NCES’s 2025-26 directory, which is still preliminary.
• NCES gives no 2024-25 count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch for this school.
• Around the school, a family with children aged 5 to 17 has an income of about 191% of the federal poverty threshold for its size (100% is at the threshold), by NCES’s 2021-22 estimate from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey of 2018-2022; its standard error is 49 points.
• That describes the school’s neighbourhood, which NCES says may differ from the neighbourhoods its students live in.

What the school reported to the Office for Civil Rights for 2023-24. These are the school’s own counts, not findings.

• There aren’t enough nearby public alternative schools in Mississippi with 2022-23 chronic absence figures to compare.

• Run by Pascagoula-Gautier School District, its local education agency in NCES’s directory.
• District spending, fiscal year 2024: Pascagoula-Gautier School District spent $15,943 per student, by the Census Bureau’s count of the district’s spending and its 6,501 students, of which $8,571 went on instruction and $6,422 on support services such as administration, buildings and transport.
• That is the district’s figure across all its schools, not this school’s own: its day-to-day spending on salaries, benefits, services and supplies, not on construction, equipment, debt or payments to other school systems.

• Federal school data don’t record findings against a school: the counts here are what the school reported, and the Office for Civil Rights’ own investigations aren’t included.

• Federal school data arrive one to three years after the school year they describe, so each figure here carries its own year.
• To protect students’ privacy, ED adds or takes away one at random from chronic absence counts of four or fewer, so a small count may be one off.
• ED publishes each school’s test results in reading and language arts and in mathematics, but they aren’t loaded here yet.

• National Center for Education Statistics, School directory, 2025-26 (preliminary).

  Released Jul 1, 2026 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. CC0.

• National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, 2024-25.

  Released Dec 29, 2025 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. CC0.

• National Center for Education Statistics, School locations, 2024-25.

  Released Dec 19, 2025 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. CC0.

• National Center for Education Statistics, EDGE school neighborhood poverty estimates, 2021-22 (American Community Survey, 2018-2022).

  Released Oct 15, 2024 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. CC0.

• U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances, fiscal year 2024: individual unit tables.

  Released May 7, 2026 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. Public domain (a U.S. government work), cited to the Census Bureau as it asks.

• National Center for Education Statistics, School membership, 2022-23 (v.1a).

  Released Jan 11, 2024 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. CC0.

• U.S. Department of Education, ED Data Express, Chronic absenteeism, 2022-23.

  Released Nov 7, 2024 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. CC0 (as data.ed.gov lists EDFacts data).

• U.S. Department of Education, ED Data Express, ED Data Express: four-year adjusted-cohort graduation rates and cohort counts (FS150, FS151), school level, 2020-21 to 2022-23.

  Released Dec 11, 2024 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. CC0 (as data.ed.gov lists EDFacts data).

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