Summary:
Middle Schools in Quitman, Mississippi, consist of a single school, Quitman Junior High School, which serves grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 288 students in the Quitman School District. As the only middle school in the district, its test results fully represent the district’s middle-grades performance, making comparisons to other local middle schools impossible. The school is rated 1 star and ranks 223rd out of 260 middle schools in Mississippi (14th percentile), while the district overall ranks 91st of 134 districts (32nd percentile) with a 2-star rating.
Quitman Junior High School shows a bright spot in 8th grade science, where 51.2% of students scored proficient in 2025-2026, just 6.6 points below the state average and a strong improvement of 10.8 points from the prior year. Another promising trend is 6th grade English Language Arts, which jumped 15 points to 39.8% proficiency. However, serious concerns remain in math, especially 8th grade math, where only 13.8% of students are proficient — a 37.6-point gap from the state. Seventh grade ELA also dropped sharply by 9.7 points to 15.9%. Overall, the school remains about 21 points behind the state average across all subjects, and its statewide percentile has slipped from 21st to 14th over three years despite modest academic gains.
Key metrics show that 82.29% of students receive free or reduced lunch, indicating a high-poverty population, and chronic absenteeism stands at 31.2% — well above the state rate of 23.9%. The student-teacher ratio is 19.8:1. Performance is highly uneven by grade and subject, suggesting significant cohort variation within a school of only about 96 students per grade. The middle school appears to lag other schools within the district, making it a likely drag on the district’s overall rating. Targeted help in math, 7th grade reading, and attendance will be critical to reversing the school’s declining relative rank.
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