MAAP, SY 2023-24
All grades, all students. % Proficient + Advanced.English Language Arts
27.7%
State avg 45.9%
District avg 37.8%
County avg 37.8%
-4.8pp since 2022-23
Mathematics
16.9%
State avg 52.8%
District avg 32.8%
County avg 32.8%
-11.1pp since 2022-23
Science
27.0%
State avg 59.8%
District avg 41.1%
County avg 41.1%
-16.6pp since 2022-23
US History
49.3%
State avg 68.0%
District avg 52.0%
County avg 52.0%
-15.0pp 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 17 of 100 do math at grade level, about 27 of 100 are at grade level in science, and about 49 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 down about 5 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 11 points, science scores are down about 17 points, and social studies scores are down about 15 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of MS schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
30.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.2%
based on MS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 47% typical for Mississippi schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual.
How this is calculated →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 27.7% mean for English Language Arts at Natchez High School?
It means about 27.7 percent of students tested at Natchez High School 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.
