Union County Best, Yazoo City Worst
The Mississippi Department of Education issued the following statement.
The Mississippi Department of Education announces that 25,399 or 77.3%, – the highest-percentage ever – of third graders passed the initial administration of the third-grade reading assessment given this spring for the 2024-25 school year. “These results are outstanding. The MDE applauds all educators and families across the state that make literacy a priority,” said Dr. Lance Evans, state superintendent of education. “With a continued emphasis on the science of reading as well as implementation of high-quality instructional materials, we believe Mississippi students will continue to make progress.” A total of 32,839 third graders took the assessment. In 2023-24, 75.7% of third graders passed the initial administration of the reading assessment. After the final retests in 2023-24, 84% of third graders passed the test.
In accordance with the Literacy-Based Promotion Act (LBPA), third graders who do not pass the initial administration of the reading test are given up to two attempts to retest. Students who did not pass the initial reading assessment retested in early May. The second retest window is June 16 – 27. The LBPA became law in 2013 to improve reading skills of kindergarten through third-grade students in public schools so every student completing the third grade is able to read at or above grade level. The LBPA requires Mississippi third graders to pass a reading assessment to qualify for promotion to fourth grade. Some students may qualify for good cause exemptions to be promoted to fourth grade. An amendment to the law in 2016 raised reading-level expectations starting in the 2018-19 school year, requiring third graders to score at level three or higher on the reading portion of the Mississippi Academic Assessment Program (MAAP) English Language Arts (ELA) assessment.
Kingfish note: Posted below is a snapshot from the weeds.
Top Ten Statewide Passing Rates
Union County: 94.8%
Pass Christian: 93.2%
Kemper County: 92%
Enterprise: 91.8%
Ocean Springs: 91.6%
Rankin County: 89.5%
Bay St. Louis-Waveland: 89.3%
Neshoba County: 89.3%
Madison County: 88.9%
Oxford: 88.9%
Bottom Ten State Wide Passing Rates
Yazoo City: 43.3%
Wilkinson County: 45%
North Panola: 47.4%
Clarksdale: 48.6%
Noxubee County: 50%
Humphreys County: 50%
Laurel: 51.3%
Yazoo County: 52.3%
Water Valley: 54.8%
West Bolivar: 54.9%
#11: JPS: 55.1%
Charter Schools
Ambition Prep: 72%
Joel E. Smillow: 64.2%
Revive Prep: 60.9%
Tomorrow: Jackson metro area scores
27 comments:
Madison County is surprisingly disappointing.
Great. Now, pay the teachers in the top performing districts like your kids' futures depend on it.
This is a classic case of "you don't get what you pay for".
All lies. Ask anyone who actually are boots on the ground in the classrooms. These numbers are manufactured to prop up the bloated administrative state. Nothing more.
WHY on earth is the MDE allowed to "report" on their own performance appraisal? MS Government is the most corrupt thing known to man....I've lived in 12 different states....nothing comes close to the insular cult of Baptist Iran that Mississippi is.
There is zero excuse for a normal child to not be able to read in 2025. These parents are disgusting.
Doesn't the ability to think diminish, absent literacy? Parental Choice in education is necessary to force public schools (that want to survive) to upgrade their performance. Just listen to KF's videos to know JPS is a failure.
You want kids to read? Give them stories they are interested in. Kids in 2025 aren’t interested in Ol Yeller and Huck Finn, or even Harry Potter anymore. But if you give them some fiction based on Mr. Beast or some other broccoli-headed brainrot TikTok’er, you can trick the little hellions into reading. Just put that dumb grinning face of Mr Beast on a book and I promise you little Cody and Quantarius will both read it because for some reason the appeal of that goober transcends all the races on the planet.
You won't believe what books are getting popular among kids right now.
Obviously they need to throw more money at the struggling counties cos that fixes it....right?
@KF
Please enlighten me. All my 10 year old boy cares about is minecraft and mr beast.
1:55 Disagree. What we read forms us, so children should not be given mindless drivel. Their humanity should be respected, and they should be provided with enduring literature. They need not be able to read all books on their own. Beautiful stories read aloud and hugely effective while he learns to read simpler things independently. The more we accept the idiocracy we build on the internet, the more we will reap its gnarled, lifeless fruit.
Liars.
Start them out on War & Peace and Dante's Inferno. If they do well on those reward the boys with Playboy magazines.
2:35, there is something to what 1:55 says. I loved cartoon books in lower elementary. Heathcliff, Garfield, Belvedere...ended up an avid reader that majored in a hard science and earned a graduate degree. Yes, I read Fitzgerald, Stevenson, Dickens, Dumas later, but the initial hook were those "fun" books early on.
12:31, don't forget that the county is (much) bigger than the Ridgeland, Madison (the city), and Gluckstadt attendance zones.
At 17 to 24 years old, the approximate age of the locals who star in KF's videos of wig rippin melees, people without literacy are unthinking fools who live for wild phone media reputations. But I have noticed that same age range working in groceries who are better spoken and thoughtful of others. After school jobs might provide a more effective education than JPS.
As a boy, I enjoyed reading stories of gallantry and heroism that I found in a "comic book" format, called "Classics", which were often very abbreviated, illustrated versions of famous complete books like Time Machine or Mutiny on the Bounty.
Canton may have ruined Madison County's score.
@3:13 1:55 here. you get it.
I also grew up reading garfield and loved those “choose your own adventure” books.
And I still read kindle and listen to audible. Admittidly, mostly sci-fi.
I’m just trying to find something to get my kid to love reading.
Oh man all I wanted to read as a kid was Nintendo Power and GamePro. 😂🤣😭 and im 42 now
3:53
Canton isn’t in Madison county school district they have there own called canton public schools. Velma Jackson in Camden and Luther Branson as well as flora and ridgeland are all not great schools.
Canton has a separate school district. It’s not in Madison co schools. It’s in canton public school district
I'm gonna need you folks in Madison and Jackson to start readin' a little better before you make any more Rankin County redneck jokes.
The LBPA is a joke , I know kids that can’t tell you what the stop sign means much less spell it and they passed the test! Pushing kids through the system hurts later in life. I hear all kinds of excuses of why kids are allowed to go to the fourth grade and so on. This shit is sickening.
I don't consider 3/4 of kids reading at their own grade level to be praiseworthy.
Bring that Pizza Hut personal pan reading thing, worked on me
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