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Northwest High School · Flowood, MS
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MAAP, SY 2023-24

All grades, all students. % Proficient + Advanced.
English Language Arts
66.7%
State avg 45.9%
District avg 62.1%
County avg 61.9%
+0.6pp since 2022-23
Mathematics
78.9%
State avg 52.8%
District avg 67.9%
County avg 67.0%
-0.3pp since 2022-23
Science
72.1%
State avg 59.8%
District avg 72.8%
County avg 72.1%
-5.1pp since 2022-23
US History
91.2%
State avg 68.0%
District avg 78.0%
County avg 77.4%
+2.9pp since 2022-23

What this means: On the MAAP, Mississippi's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 79 of 100 do math at grade level, about 72 of 100 are at grade level in science, and about 91 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 have held steady since 2022, while math scores have held steady, science scores are down about 5 points, and social studies scores are up about 3 points.

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
77.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
78.9%
based on MS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.7pp
below demographic expectation

What this means: About 77% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 79% 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. Northwest   Mississippi avg

English Language Arts

47662022-2346672023-24
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2023-2466.7%62.1%61.9%45.9%
SY 2022-2366.1%62.7%62.6%46.9%

Mathematics

53792022-2353792023-24
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2023-2478.9%67.9%67.0%52.8%
SY 2022-2379.2%67.9%67.2%53.2%

Science

63772022-2360722023-24
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2023-2472.1%72.8%72.1%59.8%
SY 2022-2377.2%73.9%73.2%62.8%

US History

70882022-2368912023-24
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2023-2491.2%78.0%77.4%68.0%
SY 2022-2388.3%76.3%75.7%69.5%

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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 66.7% mean for English Language Arts at Northwest High School?
It means about 66.7 percent of students tested at Northwest 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.

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