Leflore County Alternative School

Leflore County Alternative School in Itta Bena, MS, is part of the Greenwood-Leflore Consolidated School District, serving grades PK through 12, though it reports an enrollment of zero students, making its data difficult to interpret. The district itself is rated just 1 out of 5 stars and ranks in the bottom 10% of Mississippi districts, which sets a challenging backdrop for the school's performance. Because the school reports no student-teacher ratio or free/reduced-price lunch data, and no nearby schools are available for comparison, all results should be viewed with caution, as the proficiency percentages likely reflect only a very small number of students.

Academically, Leflore County Alternative School falls below the Mississippi state average in every subject with available test scores (grades 3–6). The most significant weakness is mathematics, with only about 10.5% of 6th graders and 13.7% of 3rd graders scoring proficient, compared to state averages near 49% and 53%, respectively. Even in the school’s strongest area — 5th-grade science, where 50% of students scored proficient — the rate is still more than 20 percentage points below the state. However, the school is not uniformly the lowest-performing in its district. In 4th grade, it actually beats the district average in both ELA and Math (31.8% vs. 24.6% in ELA; 27.3% vs. 21.0% in Math), and it also edges out the district in 5th-grade Math and Science, as well as 6th-grade ELA. These wins are modest but suggest that smaller, more individualized instruction may be helping some grade-level cohorts.

It is important to note that test data are only available for grades 3 through 6, even though the school spans PK–12, leaving middle and high school performance unknown. Given the likely tiny student population, a difference of even a few students can shift proficiency rates dramatically, so these figures are not stable for year-to-year or school-to-school comparisons. The school’s relatively stronger 4th-grade and 5th-grade science results offer a potential bright spot, but the severe challenges in 3rd- and 6th-grade math highlight ongoing struggles that are also reflected across the wider district. For parents, the takeaway is that this is a small alternative campus operating within a broadly challenged system, where data limitations make it hard to draw firm conclusions, but where some grade-level successes suggest pockets of effective teaching.