Summary:
Plantersville, Mississippi is served by a single school in this data set, Plantersville Middle School, a middle school in Lee County serving grades 5 through 8 with an enrollment of 241 students. The school serves an almost entirely economically disadvantaged student body, with 99.59% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, and the area has no elementary, high, or alternative schools represented in the data.
Plantersville Middle School significantly underperforms both the Lee County district and Mississippi state averages across nearly every subject and grade level. In 2025–2026, average proficiency across all tested subjects was just 27.5%, compared to 49.7% for the district and 52.2% for the state. The most concerning area is mathematics, particularly in 5th grade, where only 3.8% of students were proficient in 2025–2026, down from 10.5% the prior year. Even the school's best math result — 8th grade at 37.6% proficiency — falls well below the district's 48.1% and the state's 51.4%. English Language Arts proficiency also trails, ranging from 18.9% to 27.3% across grades 5 through 8, compared to district ranges of 33.0% to 52.7%.
The school faces substantial challenges beyond academics. Chronic absenteeism stands at 33.2%, meaning more than one in three students missed enough school to be considered chronically absent, higher than the district's 26.2% and the state's 23.9%. The school's student–teacher ratio of 10:1 is favorable, yet outcomes remain low, suggesting poverty and absenteeism may be outweighing the benefits of smaller class sizes. The state ranking has also declined sharply, dropping from the 17th percentile in 2024–2025 (222nd out of 266 schools) to the 7th percentile in 2025–2026 (242nd out of 260 schools). There are some bright spots: 8th grade math improved from 26.4% to 37.6%, 8th grade ELA from 13.2% to 25.0%, and 5th grade science from 43.1% to 56.6%, but every subject still trails district and state averages.
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