Summary:
Summit, Mississippi is served by 5 public schools — 2 elementary schools, 2 middle schools, and 1 high school — that together educate 2,335 students across two distinct districts: North Pike Schools, which ranks 49th of 134 districts in the state with 3 stars, and McComb School District, which ranks 96th with 1 star. This two-district structure means local schools operate under very different conditions despite sharing the same city.
North Pike Upper Elementary School stands out as the strongest performer relative to state averages, especially in math: 63.8% of 5th graders and 57.1% of 6th graders are proficient, outpacing the state by 14.2 and 4.4 points respectively. It also has the lowest chronic absenteeism rate (18.6%) among the five schools despite a 71.6% poverty rate. North Pike Junior High showed the biggest improvement, jumping from the 41st to 62nd percentile, with 8th-grade math proficiency surging from 34.7% to 58.7%. By contrast, North Pike High School is trending downward, falling from the 64th to 49th percentile over three years, with a graduation rate (86.4%) below the state average (89.2%) and the highest chronic absenteeism (26.0%).
Summit Elementary School, the only school in the McComb district, is the most at-risk: 100% of students qualify for free/reduced-price lunch and every reported test score falls below the state average, with an average deficit of 10.9 points. However, it is improving, moving from the 27th to 38th percentile, and it outperforms its own district in 3rd-grade ELA (42.3% vs. 28.9%) and math (38.4% vs. 23.5%). The biggest takeaway: poverty matters but isn't destiny — North Pike Elementary School and North Pike Upper Elementary hover near or above state averages despite roughly 70% poverty rates, while Summit Elementary shows how much more support high-poverty schools in lower-ranked districts may need.
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