Summary:
The Tunica School District contains one high school, Rosa Fort High, serving grades 9 through 12 in Tunica, Mississippi, with an enrollment of 438 students. Because this is the only high school in the district, its performance represents the district’s entire high school landscape, and the school has shown a dramatic improvement in its state ranking over the past year.
Rosa Fort High jumped from the 32nd percentile in the 2024–2025 school year to the 59th percentile in 2025–2026, moving from 157th to 91st out of 224 Mississippi high schools and earning a 3-star rating. The school’s strongest subject is Algebra I, where 89.3% of students scored proficient in 2025–2026, well above the state average of 66.0%, and up from 75.7% the previous year. Biology also improved, rising from 58.3% to 67.6% proficiency, now above the state’s 63.1%. However, English II remains a major challenge, with only 40.2% proficiency compared to the state’s 49.3%, leaving a roughly 9-point gap despite progress from the prior year. The school’s graduation rate of 89.4% is nearly identical to the state’s 89.2%.
Context matters here: every student at Rosa Fort High is economically disadvantaged, and the school’s chronic absenteeism rate of 33.9% is about 10 points higher than the state’s 23.9%. With a low student-teacher ratio of 9.8, the school likely benefits from smaller class sizes, which may be helping drive the strong gains in math and science. The biggest opportunities for further growth are improving English language arts proficiency and reducing chronic absenteeism. The recent ranking jump is encouraging, but the year-to-year volatility—dropping in 2024–2025 before rebounding—suggests the school’s improvement is promising but not yet fully stable.
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