Friday, January 26, 2024

Pearl Has Highest Graduation Rate in Metro Area

Pearl enjoyed the highest graduation rate of public schools in the Jackson metro area while Canton suffered the worst such rates.  Pearl also led the way in keeping kids in school as its dropout rate was only 1.4%.  

The Mississippi Department of Education released the annual graduation and dropout rates last week.  Posted below are the graduation and dropout rates for Jackson metro area public schools and some other public school districts from across the state. 

Statewide Graduation Rate: 70%

School District: Graduation Rate (State Ranking), Dropout Rate

Canton: 82.6% (119), 15.7%

Clinton: 88.9% (80), 7.6%

Hinds County: 87.2% (100), 9.9%

Jackson: 83.7% (115), 14.6%

Madison County: 91.2% (54), 6.9%

Pearl: 97.1% (8), 1.4%

Rankin County: 92.5% (38), 6.3%


Desoto: 94.1%, 5.2%

Hattiesburg: 96.1%, 3.9%

Greenville: 70.2%, 27.9%

Gulfport: 86.9%, 10.3%

Tupelo: 87.5%, 10.5%

21 comments:

Anonymous said...



Tell me how 8 of 10 Hinds County seniors graduated?

Anonymous said...

If Brandon could pull out of RCSD like Pearl and not have to support all of the other schools in RCSD they would be on top as well. How that ever happened is beyond me.

Anonymous said...

Congrats to Pearl! Well done.

Anonymous said...

Impressive !

Amazing how today's students can thrive under competent administrations.

Also, amazing is the failure rates under leftist management and the ability of those administrations and parents to look the other way while wanting more money.

Anonymous said...

What grade reading level are the graduates based on 1960 reading standards?

Anonymous said...

Not surprising. African-Americans tend to have overwhelmingly lower IQs and are less competent than every other race on the planet, besides Australian Aborigines.

Anonymous said...

Looks like having its own separate school district is working out.
I didn't see a breakdown by school in each district. Would like to see how Brandon compares to Pearl.

Anonymous said...

@12:06

as a resident who pays school taxes in a different city in rankin county. I would LOVE to know how you people support the REST OF US. It seems to me that Brandon has a pretty nice setup on the backs of ALL OF US.

Anonymous said...

12:06 - Scroll down in the document - Brandon 94.3%, Pelehatchie 96.6%, Pisgah 95.4%, Richland 95.8% all higher. NWR 89.2%, McLaurin 91.8%, Florence 92.7% were lower. Rankin has 1390 students where Pearl has just 278 on their N-Count.

Anonymous said...

Why is Madison County #54 in statewide rankings? MC used to be #1 or #1, alternating with the school(s) around Ole Miss, IIRC.

I've heard they have pulled a respected veteran out of retirement to serve as superintendent so we will see if they can return to their high ranking.

Is Queen Mary happy with this deterioration? I know this ranking has gone down while my real estate taxes have gone up since the city absorbed our street from the county.

Anonymous said...

There's is a noticeable difference between Pearl HS and Canton HS. Anyone care to guess what it is?

Anonymous said...

12:06- Brandon's graduation rate was 94.3% and Pleahatchie Attendance Center's was 96.6%...who is supporting who?


Kingfish- what page is the Statewide Graduation Rate of 70% referenced?

Anonymous said...

Tis' better to fail out of Madison Central than to graduate from Pearl.

Anonymous said...

Wow, what’s going on in Greenville?

Anonymous said...

12:06: Crack a book.

Anonymous said...

If 97% ranks you at #8, there must have been five or six 100%ers which is impossible.

@1:32 - Since the rankings are based on percentages graduating, the actual number of students or number of graduates doesn't matter.

Anonymous said...

Madison County and Clinton's graduation rates are being negatively impacted as the cities of Ridgeland and Clinton continue to devolve into "little Jacksons."

Anonymous said...

A mind be’s a terrible thing to wasted

Anonymous said...

ANY education related statistics reported by Mississippi schools are completely and utterly bogus. Everyone in MS's "educational" system is either brainwashed or conditioned to look the other way in order to protect their job and chase of the PERS dollars. And it's not hard to do....getting them to look the other way and stay silent.

“You're not going to get a person to understand something, when their salary depends on them not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair

Anonymous said...

Having paid for education at different private schools and universities, it's not the graduation rate that matters, it's the quality of the education and whether or not the students who graduate are prepared to continue learning.

What numerical weight has been given the high school by colleges and universities in their acceptance process?

What are the average PSAT/ACT/SAT scores?

Do the graduates who are college/university bound know how to properly write and footnote a term paper? I know a graduate of an expensive private school here who was expelled from college for plagiarism but had managed straight A's in English.

In one private school here, one class was given 15 extra points on their semester grade by their teacher if they attended a political rally. The students were warned not to tell their parents or the administration or they wouldn't get the extra points and that was decades ago so given today's politics , I cringe. ( It was a far right rally and sadly I learned about it 3 decades later when some of the class "graduates" were visiting my graduate).

If the students are spoon fed to test i.e. read the chapter, copy an outline of the chapter written for them on the chalkboard or projected, they ought to be able to pass a test the next day on the chapter, just by short term memory. It doesn't mean they understand it or will find any of it worthy of remembering.

It's not particularly helpful to know how to multiply and divide if you can't relate it to real life interest rates and percentages. Just as statistics are meaningless if you don't know if the universal sample and variables were valid.(That last ignorance has killed Americans especially in the pharmaceuticals we've taken given the " marketing" of less than honorable makers).

It is not particularly useful to know how many soldiers were at the battle and who the Generals were at the Battle of Yorktown if you don't know why they were there or why they won. And, knowing why The Battle of Hastings mattered is important as well. What were the reasons for the rise of Hitler and what triggered WWII? Why were some " golden ages" golden. What conditions needed to be in place to prosper?

And, if you don't read Mein Kampfe, you won't recognize the flaws warning signs of fascism. If you don't read Karl Marx, you won't know the flaws , warnings signs, the differences, and characteristics of Communism and Socialism. It you don't know how to recognize the common characteristics of a dictator, you end up with one.


The real question is " Are the graduates prepared to take care of themselves and succeed in the real world?"

The brains of our children are like a computer ...garbage in garbage out. Knowledge truly is power and accurate information is power and ignorance is dangerous!

You should want your children to be better informed than you are and know more. It doesn't prevent them from loving you and taking care of you. That's your insecurity holding them back!



Anonymous said...

Dean Scott was a good mentor to the students that were needing help.


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