Summary:
The East Tallahatchie School District in rural Tallahatchie County, Mississippi contains just one elementary school, Charleston Elementary School, which serves grades PK through 4 with 316 students.
Because Charleston Elementary is the only elementary school in the district, all district-level elementary test scores are identical to the school's own results. The school has ranked in the bottom 6% of Mississippi elementary schools for three consecutive years, sitting at the 5th percentile in 2025–2026. Test scores lag state averages across every subject and grade level. In 2025–2026, only 26.9% of 3rd graders and 27.0% of 4th graders were proficient in ELA, compared to state averages of 48.5% and 52.4%. Math results were even lower: 19.4% of 3rd graders and 23.1% of 4th graders were proficient in math, against state averages near 49–52%. The largest single-year decline came in 3rd grade math, dropping from 25.0% to 19.4% proficiency. On a more positive note, 4th grade ELA improved from 23.4% to 27.0%, a gain of 3.6 percentage points.
Nearly every student at Charleston Elementary (99.05%) qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting a deeply economically disadvantaged community. One clear bright spot is attendance: the school's chronic absenteeism rate is 23.8%, nearly identical to the state average of 23.9% and far better than the district-wide rate of 36.9%. This suggests attendance problems in the district are more concentrated at higher grade levels. Overall, Charleston Elementary faces major academic challenges in both math and reading, though its stable year-over-year proficiency averages and improving 4th grade ELA scores offer small signs of progress. Parents should expect a high-poverty school with significant academic struggles, but also one where attendance is on par with the rest of the state.
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