Summary:
O.M. McNair Middle School, located in Belzoni, Mississippi, is the only middle school in the Mississippi Achievement School District Of Humphreys County, serving 305 students in grades 5 through 8. As the district's sole middle school, O.M. McNair Middle School serves a 100% free/reduced-price lunch population and maintains a student-teacher ratio of 13.1, suggesting relatively small class sizes. The school currently ranks 255 out of 260 Mississippi middle schools, placing it in the bottom 2% of schools statewide, and carries a 0-star rating.
Academic performance at O.M. McNair remains well below Mississippi state averages in nearly every subject and grade level. In 2025–2026, average ELA proficiency was 19.0% compared with 45.4% statewide, and average math proficiency was 19.5% versus 52.9% statewide. Science proficiency reached 32.6%, still far behind the state average of 64.7%. The largest gaps were in 6th-grade math (13.8% vs. 52.7% statewide), 8th-grade science (21.1% vs. 57.8%), and 8th-grade math (15.8% vs. 51.4%). The school has consistently ranked in the bottom 2–4% of Mississippi middle schools over the past three years, with its percentile slipping from 4th to 2nd.
There are some encouraging recent trends worth noting. Fifth-grade science is the school's strongest subject at 44% proficiency, up from 33.8% the previous year, and 8th-grade science more than doubled from 10.6% to 21.1%. Seventh-grade ELA improved by 11.8 points and 7th-grade math by 10.6 points year-over-year. However, progress is uneven, with 6th-grade math declining by 5.3 points. Chronic absenteeism is a relative bright spot at 17.3% — better than both the district average of 22.8% and the state average of 23.9%. Despite these strengths, overall proficiency remains far below state averages, making this a persistently low-performing school with some promising signs of improvement.
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