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North Jones Elementary School · Laurel, MS
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MAAP, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % Proficient + Advanced.
English Language Arts
43.8%
State avg 45.9%
District avg 49.7%
County avg 43.2%
-5.9pp since 2023-24
Mathematics
43.8%
State avg 52.8%
District avg 59.1%
County avg 49.7%
-4.3pp since 2023-24
Science
53.1%
State avg 59.8%
District avg 61.7%
County avg 58.3%
-24.0pp since 2023-24
US History
N/A
State avg 68.0%
District avg 74.6%
County avg 70.7%

What this means: On the MAAP, Mississippi's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 44 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 53 of 100 are at grade level in science. Across all Mississippi schools, those numbers are about 46, 53, and 60. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points and science scores are down about 24 points.

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
52.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.0%
based on MS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.3pp
below demographic expectation

What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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. North Jones   Mississippi avg

English Language Arts

47502023-2446442024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2543.8%49.7%43.2%45.9%
SY 2023-2449.7%50.8%44.4%46.9%

Mathematics

53482023-2453442024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2543.8%59.1%49.7%52.8%
SY 2023-2448.1%60.7%50.5%53.2%

Science

63772023-2460532024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2553.1%61.7%58.3%59.8%
SY 2023-2477.1%70.3%65.5%62.8%

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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 43.8% mean for English Language Arts at North Jones Elementary School?
It means about 43.8 percent of students tested at North Jones 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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