NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: April 17, 2024 Seven Mississippi high school seniors named semifinalists for 2024 U.S. Presidential Scholars program JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) announced today that seven Mississippi students have been named 2024 U.S. Presidential Scholars semifinalists. The program honors the nation’s most distinguished graduating high school seniors....Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release:  March 28, 2024 MDE announces 2024 Parent of the Year JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) announced today the 2024 Mississippi Parent of the Year is Jessica Banahan McNeel, a mother of three with two students in the Pascagoula-Gautier School District (PGSD). McNeel was nominated by the...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release:  March 19, 2024 MDE announces state finalists for 2024 Administrator of the Year, Teacher of the Year JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) announced today the finalists for the 2024 Mississippi Administrator of the Year and the 2024 Mississippi Teacher of the Year. The Mississippi Administrator of...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release:  March 7, 2024 MDE announces two new Schools of Innovation for 2024-25 JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) has approved plans for Western Line Collegiate Academy in the Western Line School District and New Albany Middle School in the New Albany School District to become Schools...Read More

NEWS RELEASE  For Immediate Release:  March 7, 2024 State Board of Education approves three new early learning collaboratives to serve pre-K 4-year-olds JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) voted today to add three new early learning collaboratives (ELC) to the current list of 37 to provide high-quality early childhood education pre-K...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: February 27, 2024 Mississippi class of 2023 increases Advanced Placement participation JACKSON, Miss. – The 2024 Advanced Placement (AP) Cohort Report has been released showing that 6,804 Mississippi public school 2023 graduates took AP exams at some point during high school resulting in 36.5% qualifying scores of three or higher....Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release:  February 15, 2024 MDE releases 2023-24 Educator Shortage survey results JACKSON, Miss. – Results from the Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) 2023-24 Educator Shortage survey show there are 5,012 vacancies among teachers, administrators and school support staff across the state, an increase of 24 compared to the 2022-23 school year....Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release:  February 5, 2024 North Panola Career and Technical Center wins top prize in national Invent2Prevent contest to combat violence   North Panola Career and Technical Center students receive the first place award in the national Invent2Prevent contest from Bill Braniff, director of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Prevention Programs...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release:  February 1, 2024   MDE launches Know Your Child’s Reading Score campaign to assist K-3 parents/guardians JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) is launching a new campaign called Know Your Child’s Reading Score in an effort for parents/guardians of kindergarten through third-grade students to be well informed...Read More

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release:  Jan. 18, 2024 Mississippi’s 2022-23 graduation rate of 89.4% marks all-time high; dropout rate falls to 8.5% JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) released today the 2022-23 school year graduation and dropout rates, showing an all-time high 89.4% graduation rate and a decreased 8.5% dropout rate. Rates...Read More