The bulletin board for America's public schools. Parents, teachers, students, and staff. One community per school.

Test scores

MAAP, SY 2023-24

All grades, all students. % Proficient + Advanced.
English Language Arts
28.3%
State avg 45.9%
District avg 24.0%
County avg 27.3%
+4.4pp since 2022-23
Mathematics
46.4%
State avg 52.8%
District avg 30.6%
County avg 31.8%
-7.1pp since 2022-23
Science
47.2%
State avg 59.8%
District avg 37.4%
County avg 47.9%
+5.5pp since 2022-23
US History
40.1%
State avg 68.0%
District avg 40.1%
County avg 50.1%
-0.5pp since 2022-23

What this means: On the MAAP, Mississippi's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 46 of 100 do math at grade level, about 47 of 100 are at grade level in science, and about 40 of 100 are at grade level in social studies. Across all Mississippi schools, those numbers are about 46, 53, 60, and 68. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 7 points, science scores are up about 6 points, and social studies scores have held steady.

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
40.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.2%
based on MS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.7pp
below demographic expectation

What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% 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. J.W.   Mississippi avg

English Language Arts

47242022-2346282023-24
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2023-2428.3%24.0%27.3%45.9%
SY 2022-2323.9%23.3%25.7%46.9%

Mathematics

53542022-2353462023-24
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2023-2446.4%30.6%31.8%52.8%
SY 2022-2353.5%30.0%31.2%53.2%

Science

63422022-2360472023-24
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2023-2447.2%37.4%47.9%59.8%
SY 2022-2341.7%40.6%46.6%62.8%

US History

70412022-2368402023-24
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2023-2440.1%40.1%50.1%68.0%
SY 2022-2340.6%40.6%46.5%69.5%

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 28.3% mean for English Language Arts at J.W. Stampley 9th Grade Academy?
It means about 28.3 percent of students tested at J.W. Stampley 9th Grade Academy performed at grade level or above on the MAAP English Language Arts test in 2023-24. 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.

← Back to J.W. Stampley 9th Grade Academy