Summary:
The city of Bolton, Mississippi has only one school, Bolton-Edwards Elementary/Middle School, which serves grades PK-8 and has an enrollment of 347 students. The school is part of the Hinds County School District, which is ranked 69 out of 130 districts in the state and has a 2-star rating from SchoolDigger.
Bolton-Edwards Elementary/Middle School faces significant academic and socioeconomic challenges. The school's proficiency rates in English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science are well below state and district averages across all grade levels. Its chronic absenteeism rate of 23.9% is also significantly higher than the state average. Additionally, 100% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a high-poverty student population.
Despite these challenges, Bolton-Edwards Elementary/Middle School has a slightly better student-teacher ratio of 11.1 compared to the state average. However, the lack of other schools in the Bolton area makes it difficult to benchmark the school's performance against its local peers. Addressing the systemic issues of low academic achievement, high poverty levels, and chronic absenteeism should be a top priority for the Hinds County School District to improve student outcomes at Bolton-Edwards Elementary/Middle School.
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