Summary:
Hazlehurst City School District in Mississippi has only one middle school, Hazlehurst Middle School, which serves grades 6-8. The school has consistently underperformed, ranking 181 out of 266 middle schools in the state in the 2024-2025 school year and receiving a 2-star rating out of 5 from SchoolDigger.
Hazlehurst Middle School faces significant challenges, including a chronic absenteeism rate of 23.9%, which is much higher than the state average. The school's test scores in English Language Arts and Mathematics are also consistently below the state averages. For example, in the 2024-2025 school year, the percentage of students proficient or better in ELA ranged from 22.6% (8th grade) to 38.2% (6th grade), compared to the state averages of 41.7% (8th grade) and 46.7% (6th grade). In Mathematics, the school's proficiency rates ranged from 16.5% (8th grade) to 53.4% (6th grade), compared to the state averages of 47.5% (8th grade) and 52.9% (6th grade).
The school serves a population with significant socioeconomic challenges, as evidenced by the fact that 100% of its students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch in the 2023-2024 school year. While the school has a relatively low student-teacher ratio of 13.6 to 1, its overall performance suggests that there are opportunities for improvement in curriculum, instruction, and support for struggling students.
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