MAAP, SY 2023-24
All grades, all students. % Proficient + Advanced.English Language Arts
56.9%
State avg 45.9%
District avg 53.6%
County avg 50.0%
+5.1pp since 2022-23
Mathematics
81.7%
State avg 52.8%
District avg 67.4%
County avg 61.9%
-0.5pp since 2022-23
Science
69.9%
State avg 59.8%
District avg 67.0%
County avg 68.0%
+2.6pp since 2022-23
US History
86.5%
State avg 68.0%
District avg 87.2%
County avg 76.6%
-3.2pp 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 82 of 100 do math at grade level, about 70 of 100 are at grade level in science, and about 87 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 5 points since 2022, while math scores have held steady, science scores are up about 3 points, and social studies scores are down about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of MS schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
73.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.8%
based on MS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 74% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 58% 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 16 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 56.9% mean for English Language Arts at Ripley High School?
It means about 56.9 percent of students tested at Ripley 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.
