Best Public Schools in Jonestown, MS

Jonestown, Mississippi has just one school — Jonestown Elementary — a K-6 school with 135 students, located in the Coahoma County School District, a district ranked near the bottom of Mississippi at 115 out of 134. The school is in a high-poverty community, with 98.5% of students eligible for free or reduced lunch, but parents should know that high poverty does not mean low performance everywhere. Jonestown Elementary has shown real strengths in certain subjects and has been improving over the past several years.

In 2025–2026, Jonestown Elementary's strongest results came in 6th grade math, where 68.2% of students were proficient, well above the district's 41.8% and the state's 52.7%. The school also beat the state average in 5th grade science, with 73.3% proficiency versus 71.5% statewide. The weaker areas are English language arts and lower-grade math. Only 18.1% of 6th graders and 20.0% of 5th graders were proficient in ELA, and 5th grade math fell to 13.3% proficiency. Parents should also watch for sharp year-to-year swings — for example, 4th grade ELA jumped from 7.7% to 40.9% in one year, which is likely due to small class sizes as much as real changes.

On the positive side, chronic absenteeism at Jonestown Elementary was 17.6%, better than both the district's 25.0% and the state's 23.9%. The school also improved in state rankings, moving from the 18th percentile in 2024–2025 to the 33rd percentile in 2025–2026, and earning a second star. Subject averages improved across the board over the last year — ELA up 8.0 points, math up 8.2 points, and science up 11.4 points. Since the school only serves K–6, students must transition to another school within the Coahoma County School District after 6th grade. Finally, with just 135 students across seven grades, each proficiency rate represents a small number of children, so single-year numbers can be misleading and parents should look at multi-year trends.