MAAP, SY 2024-25
All grades, all students. % Proficient + Advanced.English Language Arts
29.0%
State avg 45.9%
District avg 51.5%
County avg 51.5%
+2.0pp since 2023-24
Mathematics
35.5%
State avg 52.8%
District avg 61.1%
County avg 61.1%
+1.2pp since 2023-24
Science
49.0%
State avg 59.8%
District avg 65.1%
County avg 65.1%
+2.6pp since 2023-24
US History
N/A
State avg 68.0%
District avg 75.1%
County avg 75.1%
What this means: On the MAAP, Mississippi's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 36 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 49 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 up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points and science scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of MS schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
36.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.0%
based on MS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-25.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 62% 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 29.0% mean for English Language Arts at Southaven Middle School?
It means about 29.0 percent of students tested at Southaven Middle 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.
