Moorhead Central School
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MAAP 2023-24 . % Proficient + AdvancedWhat this means: On the MAAP, Mississippi's statewide test, about 23 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 14 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 10 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 14 points.
About Moorhead Central School
Moorhead Central School is a cozy K-5 school in Moorhead, Mississippi, part of Sunflower County Consolidated School District. The school hosts 245 students in grades K through 8. By comparison, Mississippi's public schools average about 446 students each, so Moorhead Central School sits 45% leaner than that benchmark.
Moorhead Central School is one of 11 schools operated by Sunflower County Consolidated School District, a district that enrolls 2,807 students overall.
On demographics, Moorhead Central School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (93%); the rest breaks down as 6% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 73% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, On paper, Moorhead Central School has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.9:1, putting Moorhead Central School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 100% of students at Moorhead Central School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
In the area at large, census data for Sunflower County shows the typical household earns roughly $39,956 per year, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 22%. In all, Sunflower County runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,807 students), of which Moorhead Central School is one.
The closest other public school is Rosser Early Learning Center, roughly 0.8 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.
The campus sits in a rural setting.
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