County / FIPS 28009
Benton County
Mississippi
Benton County runs 4 public schools reporting to NCES. No Medicare-certified hospital reports to CMS from here — a real finding about rural healthcare access, not a gap in this site; Mississippi has other facilities nearby.
At a glance
Public schools
4
Hospitals
0
With a star rating
0
Land area
407
Federal money
Obligations recorded against a place of performance in Benton County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$61.9M
Per resident
$8,096
Change since FY2021
−7%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $66M |
| 2022 | $57M |
| 2023 | $65M |
| 2024 | $63M |
| 2025 | $62M |
Figures are nominal — not adjusted for inflation — because USAspending publishes them that way and adjusting them here would mean this site had edited a government figure. The per-resident figure divides by the 2020 decennial count, which is the population USAspending carries; a 2020 denominator against 2025 spending overstates per-head figures wherever a place has grown since. Benton County ranks 2748th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Public schools in Benton County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashland Elementary School | Benton Co School Dist | Ashland | 274 |
| Ashland Middle-High School | Benton Co School Dist | Ashland | 222 |
| Hickory Flat Attendance Center | Benton Co School Dist | Hickory Flat | 465 |
| Benton Co Regional Vocational Cen | Benton Co School Dist | Ashland | — |