NEWS RELEASE  For Immediate Release: March 11, 2021 JACKSON, Miss. – Mississippi high school students achieved a record-breaking graduation rate of 87.7% in 2019-20, surpassing the most recent national rate of 85%. School- and district-level graduation rates can be found in the Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) report released today, District Graduation and Dropout Rates...Read More

NEWS RELEASE  For Immediate Release: March 11, 2021 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) has released ACT results for the spring 2020 statewide administration of the ACT to all public high school juniors. The average score for juniors increased from 17.6 in 2019 to 17.7 in 2020. The percentage of juniors meeting...Read More