Mississippi Public Scools

[mswoodsrat]

If you consider the number of unwed teenage births, single parent homes and median income, the low quality of public education surfaces. However, if you get involved in the educational system and compare kids whose parents are involved to those who are not, the poor rating is explained. My experience has been where parental involvemnt is a constant, regardless of underfunding and low median incomes, there is a high success rate. The failure of dads in this state is pathetic.

[s7rugg1e]

Originally Posted by jacksonian

Newsweek magazine has named Murrah High School, located in Jackson, to its 2009 America's Top Public High Schools list. The schools are ranked on the number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate and/or Cambridge tests taken by all students in a school in 2008 divided by the number of graduating seniors. The schools represent the top 6 percent of all public high schools ranked in this way. Only two schools from Mississippi earned rankings on the 2009 Newsweek list: Murrah High School at 1058 and Oxford High School at 1269. This is the fourth year in a row that Murrah has made Newsweek's list.

That's because they siphon every achieving student in JPS directly into Murrah APAC.

[jacksonian]

Originally Posted by s7rugg1e

That's because they siphon every achieving student in JPS directly into Murrah APAC.

Why aren't schools like Madison Central and Clinton High on the list?

[blueman_fan1]

I hate the schools here in Lucedale. Very poorly ran poorly structured and they are too nosey. For there vocational curricullum they'll teach your boys how to weld a hitch back on the tractor.

[shan117]

Mississippi schools are just as they are in any other state. You have really good systems and really bad ones. My oldest 2 children graduated from Poplarville schools. They both became National Merit Finalists and Scholars. Their ACT scores were in the 30s. They couldn't have acheived and competed nationally this well had the schools been seriously lacking. Poplarville was named a Blue Ribbon High School this past year and it was listed in the US News and World Report best high schools. The 2008 graduating class had 7 or 8 students who scored above 29 on the ACT out of a class of about 125 seniors. Not bad for a Mississippi public school! I believe that if you were to take portions of the state out of the statistics, then Mississippi would rank somewhere in the middle, instead of always at the bottom in everything. The state really is a great place to live and one of the best kept secrets in the country. I'm really missing it right now because we had to move away from Mississippi a couple of weeks ago.

[oldenfatt]

The educational system in Mississippi is acceptable except for one area- the Delta. There are too many districts, each run with a top-heavy and overpaid administration. For many of these districts, the top priority is the welfare of the district itself, then the education of the students. The annual screams for funds apparently are after central office salaries and needs are covered. We tolerate it because every whine is followed by "for the welfare of our children." If our children truly were the priority, the Delta would have half the educational kingdoms it now has.