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Ballotpedia provides in-depth coverage of school board elections inAmerica's largest school districts by enrollment. In addition to the 200 largest school districts in the nation, Ballotpedia covers the additional school districts that overlap with the100 largest cities by population in the United States.

Academic performance

See also:Public education in Mississippi

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NAEP scores

See also:NAEP scores by state

The National Center for Education Statistics provides state-by-state data on student achievement levels in mathematics and reading in theNational Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The table below presents the percentage of fourth and eighth grade students that scored at or above proficient in reading and math during school year 2012-2013. Compared to three neighboring states (Alabama, Arkansas, and Louisiana),Mississippi's scores were the lowest nearly across the board.^[1]

Graduation, ACT and SAT scores

See also:Graduation rates by groups in state andACT and SAT scores in the United States

The following table shows the graduation rates and average composite ACT and SAT scores for Mississippi and surrounding states during the 2012-2013 school year. All statements made in this section refer to that school year.^[1][2][3]

In the United States, public schools reported graduation rates that averaged to about 81.4 percent. About 54 percent of all students in the country took the ACT, while 50 percent reported taking the SAT. The average national composite scores for those tests were 20.9 out of a possible 36 for the ACT, and 1498 out of a possible 2400 for the SAT.^[4]

Mississippi schools reported agraduation rate of 75.5 percent during the 2012-2013 school year, second lowest among its neighboring states.

In Mississippi, more students took the ACT than the SAT in 2013, earning anaverage ACT score of 18.9.

Dropout rate

See also:Public high school dropout rates by state for a full comparison of dropout rates by group in all states

The high school eventdropout rate indicates the proportion of students who were enrolled at some time during the school year and were expected to be enrolled in grades nine through 12 in the following school year but were not enrolled by October 1 of the following school year. Students who have graduated, transferred to another school, died, moved to another country, or who are out of school due to illness are not considered dropouts. The average public high school event dropout rate for the United States remained constant at 3.3 percent for both school year 2010–2011 and school year 2011–2012. The event dropout rate for Mississippi was lower than the national average at 3.2 percent in the 2010-2011 school year, and 3.2 percent in the 2011-2012 school year.^[5]

Pivot Counties

Pivot Counties

See also:Pivot Counties by state

Two of 82 Mississippi counties—2.4 percent—arePivot Counties. Pivot Counties are counties that voted forBarack Obama (D) in 2008 and 2012 and forDonald Trump (R) in 2016. Altogether, the nation had 206 Pivot Counties, with most being concentrated in upper midwestern and northeastern states.

Additional elections

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