Alcorn School District

The Alcorn School District in Mississippi serves about 3,226 students across 8 schools, including 3 elementary schools, 2 middle schools, and 3 high schools, and is rated 26th out of 134 districts in the state. The strongest schools in the district are scattered across all grade bands. Kossuth Elementary School leads the elementary schools with a 4-star rating, strong math proficiency rates, and above-average attendance. Alcorn Central Middle School is the more consistent middle school, ranking in the 75th percentile or higher for three straight years. Kossuth High School remains the district’s top high school, with the best test scores and the lowest poverty rate, while Biggersville High School made a dramatic leap from a 1-star to a 4-star rating, including the district’s highest Algebra I proficiency rate.

Some schools are struggling even as their neighbors improve. Alcorn Central High School has the district’s worst attendance problem, with 31% of students chronically absent, yet it still posts a 94.3% graduation rate. Biggersville Elementary has the highest poverty rate in the district and has fallen to a 2-star rating, with test scores well below state averages in several subjects. Kossuth Middle School is also sliding, especially in 6th grade math and ELA, where proficiency dropped noticeably in one year.

For parents, the biggest takeaway is that grade-level transitions are hard across this district: 5th and 6th grade test scores dip below state averages, while 7th and 8th grade scores recover. Poverty and attendance do not tell the whole story. High-poverty schools like Alcorn Central Middle School and Biggersville High School are achieving at high levels, while lower-poverty schools are not always the strongest. All three high schools exceed the state graduation rate, but school performance varies from year to year, especially at smaller schools, so families should look at trends rather than a single year’s rating.