Summary:
The Winona-Montgomery Consolidated School District contains a single elementary school, Winona Elementary School, which serves grades PK-6 in Winona, MS, with an enrollment of 567 students. Because this is the only elementary school in the district, the district's accountability rating is essentially a direct reflection of this one school's performance.
Winona Elementary has a student-teacher ratio of 15.2 and serves a student body where 99.47% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, making it a high-poverty school. Despite this, chronic absenteeism is just 16.0%, well below both the district average of 20.6% and the state average of 23.9%. The school shows a clear strength in early grades: 3rd grade math proficiency was 58.9% in 2025-2026, 10.1 points above the state average, and 3rd grade ELA was 50.0%, slightly above the state average of 48.5%. However, proficiency drops sharply in upper grades—5th grade math is 17.4% versus 49.6% statewide, and 6th grade ELA is 21.6% versus 48.0% statewide. Cohort comparisons reveal steep declines, such as math proficiency falling from 48.6% in 4th grade to 17.4% in 5th grade in just one year.
The school's state ranking has fallen dramatically over the past three years, from 208th of 390 schools (47th percentile, 2 stars) in 2023-2024, to 246th of 383 (36th percentile, 2 stars) in 2024-2025, to 285th of 377 (24th percentile, 1 star) in 2025-2026. The district as a whole ranks 107th out of 134 districts in Mississippi. For parents, the clearest takeaway is that Winona Elementary excels in the early grades, especially 3rd grade math, but students experience significant learning setbacks as they move into 5th and 6th grade. Priority areas for intervention include 5th and 6th grade math, 6th grade ELA, and 5th grade science, while the school's strong 3rd grade results should be preserved and built upon.
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