Summary:
Winona-Montgomery Consolidated School District contains exactly one high school, Winona Secondary School, a grades 7–12 campus in Winona, MS, serving 502 students with a favorable 10.4:1 student-teacher ratio. The school has an extremely high poverty rate, with 99.4% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, and because it is the district's only high school, its test results are identical to district-level data, meaning this single campus both represents and drives the district's performance.
Academically, the school trails the state in every subject. Across all 17 reported subject-grade combinations, average proficiency is roughly 39.2% versus 53.4% statewide, a gap of about 14 percentage points. The largest deficits in 2025–2026 were in 8th grade science (35.5% vs. 57.8%), Algebra I (47.3% vs. 66.0%), and 8th grade ELA (29.3% vs. 40.9%). The state percentile ranking has declined for three straight years, from the 35th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 22nd percentile in 2025–2026, and the star rating dropped from 2 to 1. However, there are relative bright spots in math: 7th grade math reached 50.1% proficiency in 2024–2025 (only 5.4 points behind the state), and 8th grade math improved from 31.2% to 43.4% in one year.
Attendance and graduation remain major obstacles. The graduation rate is 77.6%, nearly 12 points below the state average of 89.2%, meaning roughly one in four students does not graduate on time. Chronic absenteeism affects 25.6% of students, higher than both the state rate of 23.9% and the district rate of 20.6%. With nearly universal poverty and a 15–22 point proficiency gap in several key subjects, Winona Secondary faces deep systemic challenges that extend beyond classroom instruction, and its declining ranking suggests it is not improving as quickly as other Mississippi schools.
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