MAAP, SY 2023-24
All grades, all students. % Proficient + Advanced.English Language Arts
57.1%
State avg 45.9%
District avg 49.0%
County avg 51.0%
+12.6pp since 2022-23
Mathematics
78.0%
State avg 52.8%
District avg 65.7%
County avg 67.1%
+1.4pp since 2022-23
Science
72.9%
State avg 59.8%
District avg 73.8%
County avg 71.9%
-11.4pp since 2022-23
US History
81.4%
State avg 68.0%
District avg 75.3%
County avg 76.4%
-4.9pp since 2022-23
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, about 78 of 100 do math at grade level, about 73 of 100 are at grade level in science, and about 81 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 13 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 1 points, science scores are down about 11 points, and social studies scores are down about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of MS schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
72.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.5%
based on MS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+24.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 47% typical for Mississippi schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 25 points, placing it in Mississippi's top 10%.
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 57.1% mean for English Language Arts at North Pontotoc High School?
It means about 57.1 percent of students tested at North Pontotoc 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.
