Humphreys County

The Mississippi Achievement School District Of Humphreys County serves roughly 1,130 students across three schools — Humphreys County High School (grades 9–12), Ida Greene Elementary School (PK–4), and O.M. McNair Middle School (grades 5–8) — in a rural Mississippi area where 100% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch and the district ranks in the bottom 2% of the state with a 0-star rating.

Ida Greene Elementary School is the district's brightest spot, ranking in the 10th percentile among elementary schools and showing dramatic growth in 4th grade math, which jumped from 21.2% to 43.2% proficiency — just 8.3 points behind the state average. O.M. McNair Middle School stands out for attendance, with a 17.3% chronic absenteeism rate that is actually better than the state average of 23.9%, and it posted broad academic gains, including 7th grade ELA nearly tripling from 7.9% to 19.7%. Humphreys County High School is the only school with graduation data, reporting a 74.2% graduation rate versus 89.2% statewide, with Algebra I as its strongest subject at 46.8% proficiency.

Chronic absenteeism varies widely across the district despite universal poverty — the high school's rate is 27.2%, the elementary school is near the state average at 22.5%, and the middle school is below it. Science is a major weakness district-wide: Biology proficiency at the high school is just 26.5% versus 63.1% statewide, and 8th grade science at the middle school sits at 21.1% versus 57.8%. Still, signs of progress exist: Ida Greene Elementary School climbed from the 1st to the 10th percentile in two years, and the middle school's average proficiency rose from 16.5% to 21.9% in one year. While the district remains far below state averages in most subjects, these gains show improvement is possible even in a high-poverty context.