Louisville Municipal School District

The Louisville Municipal School District serves roughly 2,413 students across 6 schools in east-central Mississippi, including two elementary schools (Fair Elementary for PK-2 and Louisville Elementary for grades 3-5), Eiland Middle (6-8), Louisville High (9-12), and two K-12 alternative attendance centers (Nanih Waiya Attendance Center and Noxapater Attendance). The district holds a solid 3-star rating, placing it in the 49th percentile of Mississippi districts, but this overall rating masks wide variation—from strong performers to persistently low-ranked campuses.

Nanih Waiya Attendance Center is arguably the district's strongest all-around school despite its alternative classification. It outperforms both district and state averages in several subjects—3rd grade ELA at 55.6% proficiency versus 48.5% statewide, 3rd grade math at 61.1%, and 6th grade ELA at 57.1%—while posting a 92.5% graduation rate and the district's lowest chronic absenteeism at 20.1%. Louisville High has the district's best graduation rate (96.5%) and excellent Algebra I proficiency (82.9% vs. 66.0% statewide), but it also has alarmingly high chronic absenteeism at 36.4% and weak English II scores (33.6% vs. 49.3% statewide). Noxapater Attendance boasts the district's single best subject result—78.6% proficiency in 5th grade science—along with strong biology scores, yet its 86.4% graduation rate is the lowest in the district.

At the other end of the spectrum, Eiland Middle has ranked in the bottom quartile of Mississippi middle schools for three straight years, with 7th grade ELA proficiency at just 14.8%. Louisville Elementary dropped to a 1-star rating and shows only 18.8% proficiency in 3rd grade math. Across the district, 7th grade ELA is a systemic weak point (20.4% district-wide vs. 36.7% statewide). Notably, the two alternative schools outperform several traditional campuses, showing that alternative classification does not mean lower performance. Poverty rates are high throughout the district, and while the highest-poverty schools struggle most, targeted help with 7th-grade reading, high school attendance, and early-grade math at Louisville Elementary could yield meaningful improvements.