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For 2024 testing, Mississippi exceeded that cap, testing 1.9% of its students with an alternate assessment in English, 1.9% in math and 2% in science. Each school district is responsible for ...
Courses in math, science, language arts, and social studies prepare students to take further APAC and Advanced Placement/APAC classes in high school. APAC academic courses are offered for grades 4-5 at Power APAC Elementary; for grades 6–8 at Bailey APAC Middle School, and for grades 9–12 at Murrah High School. In October 2002, Jackson ...
Scores reached an all-time high from the 2023-2024 school year with 56.3% proficiency in Math and 47.8% in English. Math scores increased at all grade levels except grades three and four.
The school enrolls students in the last two years of high school graduating over 100 students each year. In 2021, the school produced 21 National Merit Semifinalists . [ 5 ] While the main academic focus of MSMS is mathematics and science, humanities, particularly history, literature, and art are also emphasized.
In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. [4] Eight years after the Brown decision, every Mississippi school district remained segregated, and all attempts by African American applicants to integrate the University of Mississippi—better known as Ole Miss—had failed.
In 2024, only 4% of Mississippi school districts earned a failing grade of a D or F. Yet, in 2022 that number was closer to 12%. To put it simply, Mississippi school districts are improving from ...
The data suggest that for every incident of vandalism referred to local law enforcement from schools without regular contact with SROs, 1.53 are referred in schools with regular contact with SROs, with p < 0.001. This is after controlling for state statutes that require school officials to refer students to law enforcement for committing the ...
From the end of the Reconstruction era in the 1870s down to the 1940s, the state and local governments gave far less money to all-black public schools compared to the favored white public schools. (There were no racially integrated schools). However many private schools for Blacks were funded by Northern philanthropy well into the 20th century.