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Back Bay Elementary School · Biloxi, MS
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MAAP, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % Proficient + Advanced.
English Language Arts
56.5%
State avg 45.9%
District avg 56.1%
County avg 61.2%
-4.2pp since 2023-24
Mathematics
58.3%
State avg 52.8%
District avg 63.7%
County avg 65.6%
-8.0pp since 2023-24
Science
N/A
State avg 59.8%
District avg 76.8%
County avg 75.2%
US History
N/A
State avg 68.0%
District avg 81.1%
County avg 84.9%

What this means: On the MAAP, Mississippi's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Mississippi schools, those numbers are about 46 and 53. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 8 points.

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
60.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.5%
based on MS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.0pp
below demographic expectation

What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% typical for Mississippi schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Mississippi's top nor bottom 10%.

BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →

2-year history

All grades, all students. Back Bay   Mississippi avg

English Language Arts

47612023-2446572024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2556.5%56.1%61.2%45.9%
SY 2023-2460.7%60.3%62.6%46.9%

Mathematics

53662023-2453582024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2558.3%63.7%65.6%52.8%
SY 2023-2466.3%70.0%67.6%53.2%

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How to read these scores

What is MAAP?
MAAP is the statewide standardized test administered by Mississippi public schools.
What does "% Proficient + Advanced" mean?
It is the share of students at the school who performed at grade level or above on the test, summed across the top two of four performance levels. A higher number is better.
What does 56.5% mean for English Language Arts at Back Bay Elementary School?
It means about 56.5 percent of students tested at Back Bay Elementary School performed at grade level or above on the MAAP English Language Arts test in 2024-25. The statewide average for Mississippi that year was 45.9%. The other students fell into the lower performance levels.
How is the state average calculated?
It is a weighted average, not a simple average of each school's number. We multiply each public school's score by how many of its students tested, add those together for all schools in Mississippi, and divide by the total students tested that year. This way a big school with 1,500 students counts more than a small school with 50 students, which is the right way to ask "how did the typical student do this year?". District and county averages on this page use the same method, just scoped to that district or county.
Where does this data come from?
Mississippi Department of Education, Mississippi Academic Assessment Program (MAAP). School-level All Students subgroup from the MDE Report Card data download. Headline metric is the cumulative "Proficient + Advanced" rate (top 2 of 5 MAAP levels: Minimal / Basic / Passing / Proficient / Advanced).
How often is it updated?
MAAP is administered once a year (spring). Results are released by the state in the summer or early fall. We refresh this page after each annual release.

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