Table of contents
•	Title page
•	Introduction
•	Acknowledgments
•	National Summary
	State Profiles
	-	Alabama
	-	Alaska
	-	Arizona
	-	Arkansas
	-	California
	-	Colorado
	-	Connecticut
	-	Delaware
	-	District of Columbia
	-	Florida
	-	Georgia
	-	Hawaii
	-	Idaho
	-	Illinois
	-	Indiana
	-	Iowa
	-	Kansas
	-	Kentucky
	-	Louisiana
	-	Maine
	-	Maryland
	-	Massachusetts
	-	Michigan
	-	Minnesota
	-	Mississippi
	-	Missouri
	-	Montana
	-	Nebraska
	-	Nevada
	-	New Hampshire
	-	New Jersey
	-	New Mexico
	-	New York
	-	North Carolina
	-	North Dakota
	-	Ohio
	-	Oklahoma
	-	Oregon
	-	Pennsylvania
	-	Puerto Rico
	-	Rhode Island
	-	South Carolina
	-	South Dakota
	-	Tennessee
	-	Texas
	-	Utah
	-	Vermont
	-	Virginia
	-	Washington
	-	West Virginia
	-	Wisconsin
	-	Wyoming
•	Sources
•	Appendix A
•	Appendix B
•	Appendix C
•	Full report in PDF format (956K)

State Education Indicators With a Focus on Title I

A r c h i v e d I n f o r m a t i o n

Mississippi
http://www.mde.k12.ms.us/

School and Teacher Demographics
Student Demographics
Statewide Accountability Information
Title I Schools
Assessment Information
Student Achievement 1998-1999
NAEP State Results
Printable version of this profile (PDF format)

School and Teacher Demographics

Number of districts
(CCD, 1998-99)

153

Number of public schools in state
(CCD, 1998-99)
Elementary	Middle	High	Combined	Other
435	172	182	63	22

Student/teacher ratio
(CCD, 1998-99)
Elementary	Middle	High
17:1	16:1	16:1

Number of FTE teachers in state
(CCD, 1998-99)
Elementary	Middle	High	Combined	Other
12,956	5,985	7,818	2,857	435

Public school enrollment
	1989-90	1998-99
K-8 (CCD)	369,513	363,163
9-12 (CCD)	132,507	132,668
Pre-K (by state definition)	379	1,548

Sources of funding
District average
(CCD, 1996-97)

State 55.4%, Local 30.5%, Federal 14.1%

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Student Demographics

Race/ethnicity
(CCD, K-12)
	1989-90	1998-99
American Indian/Alaskan Natives	0.1%	0.1%
Asian/Pacific Islander	0.4	0.6
Black	50.6	51.0
Hispanic	0.1	0.5
White	48.7	47.7

Students with disabilities
(OSEP, K-12)
1990-91	1998-99
11.0%	10.4%

Limited English proficient
(USED/NCBE, K-12)
1989-90	1996-97
2,651	1,594

Migrant
(OME, K-12)
1993-94	1998-99
4,021	3,085

High school dropout rate
(CCD, event)
1993-94	1997-98
6.4%	5.8%

Postsecondary enrollment
(IPEDS, High school grads enrolled in college)
1994-95	1997-98
69%	74%

All schools by percent of students eligible to participate in the Free Lunch Program*
(CCD, 1998-99)

For 0 to 34%, 145 schools; 35 to 49%, 198 schools; 50 to 74%, 331 schools; and 75 to 100%, 195 schools.

*Five schools did not report.

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Statewide Accountability Information

Statewide Goal for Schools on State Assessment
District Accreditation 3: 90 percent of students at level 3 perf. standards (school-based system by 2002)

Expected School Improvement on Assessment
Level 1 and 2 schools improve one accountability level in 2 years.

Indicators for School Accountability
Index: NRT scores, school process measures

Title I Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) for Schools
Same as statewide improvement (moving to school targets)

Schools Meeting Title I AYP Goal
Not available

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Title I Schools

Title I enrollment
(USED)
	1998-99
K-8	228,241
9-12	34,650
Pre-K	n/a

Race/ethnicity
(USED, K-12)
	Schoolwide	Targeted Assistance
American Indian/Alaskan Natives	347	n/a
Asian/Pacific Islander	945	96
Black	155,580	4,527
Hispanic	1,106	146
White	99,520	10,069

Title I allocation
(Includes Basic, Concentration, and LEA grants, Capital Expenditures, Even Start, Migrant Education, and Neglected & Delinquent, USED, 1998-99)

$128,218,553

Number of schools with Title I programs
Schoolwide vs. targeted assistance (USED)

In 1996, 111 schools with schoolwide programs and 631 schools with targeted assistance; in 1998, 512 schoolwide, 158 targeted assistance; in 1999, 572 schoolwide, 108 targeted assistance

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Assessment Information

Assessment Reported
Iowa Test of Basic Skills, Form L and Test of Achievement Proficiency, used since 1994. Test is administered in fall for the previous school year.

Progress Toward Assessment Aligned with Standards
Performance standards did not meet review criteria of the U.S. Department of Education.

State Definition of "Proficient"
NCE average; there is no definition of proficient

Exclusion from Assessment
Students with disabilities, students who are absent.

Other Assessments
None

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Student Achievement 1998-1999

Percentage of students meeting state proficiency levels

Grade 4

Reading/Language Arts
		Mean NCE
All Students		46.1%
Title I Schoolwide		13.8
Title I Targeted
Percent of School in Poverty
	00-34
	75-100
LEP Students		43.3
Migrant students		40.1

Mathematics
		Mean NCE
All Students		49.8%
Title I Schoolwide		47.8
Title I Targeted
Percent of School in Poverty
	00-34
	75-100
LEP Students		49.0
Migrant students		46.5

Grade 8

Reading/Language Arts
		Mean NCE
All Students		50.6%
Title I Schoolwide		46.2
Title I Targeted
Percent of School in Poverty
	00-34
	75-100
LEP Students		47.8
Migrant students		45.3

Mathematics
		Mean NCE
All Students		48.1%
Title I Schoolwide		44.5
Title I Targeted
Percent of School in Poverty
	00-34
	75-100
LEP Students		47.0
Migrant students		42.3

Grade

Reading

All Students
Title I Schoolwide
Title I Targeted

Mathematics

All Students
Title I Schoolwide
Title I Targeted

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NAEP State Results
	Grade 4	Grade 8
Reading, 1998:
Proficient level and above	18%	19%
Basic level and above	48%	61%
Math, 2000:
Proficient level and above	9.5%	8%
Basic level and above	45.5%	41%